Population and Employment

• Green Card for the Professionals
• Age Structure in Population
• Education Level of Population
• Employment
• Natural Changes in Population
• Population
• Life Expectancy

By the end of 2008, Shanghai employed 9.4607 million people. Of the total, 1.4073 million, or 14.9%, were hired by the state enterprises and institutions; 1.8888 million, or 20%, were employed by collectively-owned work units; and 1.3279 million, or 14%, worked in overseas-funded enterprises; and 2.9968 million, or 31.6%, worked at private businesses. The registered unemployment rate in the city’s urban areas stood at 4.2% in late 2008.