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🦾 Most Industrial Robots per Worker

Industrial robots in operation per 1,000 manufacturing employees.

📅 2024📏 robots per 1,000 employees21 entries
Every dot is one country, placed by its value (robots per 1,000 employees); the vertical bar marks each row’s median. Rows are world regions, ordered by their median. Hover a dot for its name.
1
🇰🇷South Korea
122
2
🇸🇬Singapore
82
3
🇩🇪Germany
45
4
🇯🇵Japan
45
5
🇸🇪Sweden
38
6
🇩🇰Denmark
33
7
🇸🇮Slovenia
32
8
🇺🇸United States
31
9
🇹🇼Taiwan
30
10
🇨🇭Switzerland
29
11
🇳🇱Netherlands
29
12
🇦🇹Austria
27
13
🇨🇦Canada
24
14
🇮🇹Italy
24
15
🇨🇿Czechia
22
16
🇸🇰Slovakia
21
17
🇫🇷France
20
18
🇫🇮Finland
18
19
🇪🇸Spain
18
20
🇭🇺Hungary
17
21
🇨🇳China
17

Highlights

As of 2024, South Korea ranks first with 122, followed by Singapore (82) and Germany (45).

Across 21 countries and territories, values run from 122 (South Korea) to 17 (China), with a median of 29.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 5 from Europe, 4 from Asia and 1 from the Americas.

Source: International Federation of Robotics, via Our World in Data, 2024. Unit: robots per 1,000 employees.

Source: International Federation of Robotics, via Our World in Data · CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data) · fetched Oct 14, 2026 — Covers the countries that report to the IFR. Counts robots per 1,000 employees in manufacturing.