Australia vs Canada: Employment by professional status
Employment by professional status over time
- Australia
- Canada
How they compare
Canada currently reports 21,029 Persons against 14,596 Persons in Australia, a difference of 6,433 Persons.
That makes Canada's figure about 1.4 times Australia's.
Across all 62 years both countries report, Canada has been ahead every year.
Australia ranks 13th and Canada ranks 12th of 33 countries.
Canada has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Australia | Canada | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,845 Persons | 7,220 Persons | 2,375 Persons | Canada |
| 1970s | 5,807 Persons | 9,204 Persons | 3,397 Persons | Canada |
| 1980s | 6,783 Persons | 11,721 Persons | 4,938 Persons | Canada |
| 1990s | 8,076 Persons | 13,340 Persons | 5,264 Persons | Canada |
| 2000s | 9,804 Persons | 15,961 Persons | 6,157 Persons | Canada |
| 2010s | 11,790 Persons | 17,901 Persons | 6,111 Persons | Canada |
| 2020s | 13,690 Persons | 19,811 Persons | 6,121 Persons | Canada |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher employment by professional status, Australia or Canada?
- Canada, at 21,029 Persons against 14,596 Persons in Australia as of 2025.
- What is the difference in employment by professional status between Australia and Canada?
- 6,433 Persons, with Canada ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and Canada?
- 62 years are reported by both, from 1964 to 2025.
- How do Australia and Canada rank globally for employment by professional status?
- Australia ranks 13th and Canada ranks 12th of 33 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as Employment by professional status (ICSE-93). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
The dataflow "Employment by profesional status (ICSE-93)" is a subset of the “Employment by activites and status (ALFS)” dataset which presents annual labour force statistics for OECD member countries, Brazil and 4 geographical areas (Major Seven, Euro zone, European Union and OECD-Total). This dataflow contains employment statistics for all economic activities broken down by professional status as defined by the ICSE-1993 including employees, employers and own-account workers, and unpaid family workers. Economic activities are defined according to the Major divisions of the International standard International Classification (ISIC) Rev. 4 with the exception of the United-States wich compiled since 2003, employment data by sector following the North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS); NAICS sector are then proxied to ISIC Rev. 4 and are therefore not strictly comparable with other countries’ data. The professional status is defined in the International Classification by status in Employment (ICSE-1993). To be considered as an unpaid family worker, the hour-threshold varies from one hour to 18 hours a week. Data are presented in thousands of persons, or as indices with base year 2015=100. Annual data in this dataset are typically calculated as averages of infra-annual estimates. This can lead to differences with annual data published by National Statistics Institutes.