Key Market Indicators
A total of 8,121,831 people were employed in the mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction sector in 2019. Eight million people were working in the mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction sector last year. That's the highest figure since records began in 1997. It's a 5.6 percent increase compared to 2018, when there were 7,664,906 employed in the sector.
