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Employment Projections

Industries with the most rapidly declining output

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Table 2.8 Industries with the most rapidly declining output
(Output in billions of chained 2012 dollars)

Industry Description

Sector

2017 NAICS

Output, 2021

Output, 2031

Output change, 2021–31

Compound annual rate of change, 2021–31

Tobacco manufacturing

Manufacturing

3122

43.1

28.7

-14.4

-4.0

Manufacturing and reproducing magnetic and optical media

Manufacturing

3346

1.8

1.2

-0.6

-3.8

Coal mining

Mining

2121

34.4

24.3

-10.2

-3.4

Apparel, leather and allied product manufacturing

Manufacturing

315, 316

26.2

19.3

-6.9

-3.0

Religious organizations

Other services

8131

79.3

75.8

-3.4

-0.4

Postal Service

Federal government

491

53.9

51.7

-2.1

-0.4

Federal general government nondefense

Federal government

NA

437.7

425.0

-12.7

-0.3

Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance

Other services

8112

20.1

19.7

-0.4

-0.2

Other chemical product and preparation manufacturing

Manufacturing

3259

42.1

42

-0.1

0

Source: Employment Projections program, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Last Modified Date: September 8, 2022