KUALA LUMPUR: More than two million foreign workers are in Malaysia as of May 31 this year, the Dewan Rakyat was told.
The Human Resources Ministry said the 2,307,746 foreign workers are from the industrial, construction, service, plantation, agriculture, domestic work and mining and quarrying sectors.
The industrial sector recorded the highest number of foreign workers at 730,999 followed by construction (646,508), service (394,739), plantation (263,151), agriculture (171,103), domestic work (100,675) and mining and quarrying (571).
Some 19,934 companies have also registered under the Immigration Department’s Expatriate Services Division as of July 11.
“Manufacturing had the highest number of applications at 27,012 followed by construction (8,981), business services (8,590), education (7,142) and the oil, gas and energy sector (5,424),” it said in a written reply on Wednesday (July 17).
The ministry was responding to a question by Datuk Ngeh Koo Ham (PH-Beruas) who asked about the current intake of foreign workers in the labour and professional sectors.
