Adex: Peruvian exports boosted about 3 million jobs

Peruvian shipments abroad maintained a stock of just over 2 million 948 jobs (between direct, indirect and induced) in the period January – October, which represented an increase of 15.9% compared to the same period in 2019, reported the Global Business and Economy Research Center of the Association of Exporters (CIEN-Adex).

In addition, they reported that two sectors had a lower number of jobs compared to the same month in 2020: mining with -29.8% (due to stoppages in some mining deposits) and the fishing sector for direct human consumption with -40.2%.

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In the primary sector, the labor stock was 1 million 95,270 in the first 10 months from 2021, which represented 37.2% of the total; In the non-traditional sector, the figure was 1 million 852,772, concentrating 62.8%.

In addition, agribusiness was positioned as the more labor intensive activity by obtaining the figure of 1 million 217,183, thanks to the greater shipments of superfoods to the foreign market, since having greater added value creates more work along the productive chains.

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The Traditional mining had a great boost with a stock of 749,033 for the largest shipments of copper, gold, iron, tin, silver, among others. Traditional agriculture (such as coffee shipments) generated 256,251 jobs. Meanwhile, clothing had a stock of 230,360, driven by a greater demand for labor in the manufacture and export of pajamas, baby clothes, pants and more.

The fishing for direct human consumption had 155,411 thanks to the increased demand for frozen and canned squid and squid, prawns and their tails, horse mackerel, trout fillets and frozen mackerel.

Finally, it is followed by traditional fishing with 85,625 due to the higher volumes of flour and fish oil, iron and steel industry with 51,348, textiles with 43,568, non-metallic mining with 39,179, “various” with 34,278, chemical with 32,859, metalworking with 26,641, wood with 21,945 and hydrocarbons with 4,361.