Australia vs Spain: Employment by professional status

Australia
14,596 Persons
in 2025
Spain
22,221 Persons
in 2025
Australia rank
13th
Spain rank
11th

Employment by professional status over time

  • Australia
  • Spain
5.0k10.0k15.0k20.0k195619902025

How they compare

Spain currently reports 22,221 Persons against 14,596 Persons in Australia, a difference of 7,625 Persons.

That makes Spain's figure about 1.5 times Australia's.

Across all 62 years both countries report, Spain has been ahead every year.

Australia ranks 13th and Spain ranks 11th of 33 countries.

Spain has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Australia Spain Difference Ahead
1960s 4,845 Persons 12,051 Persons 7,206 Persons Spain
1970s 5,807 Persons 12,529 Persons 6,721 Persons Spain
1980s 6,783 Persons 11,530 Persons 4,747 Persons Spain
1990s 8,076 Persons 13,002 Persons 4,926 Persons Spain
2000s 9,804 Persons 18,336 Persons 8,532 Persons Spain
2010s 11,790 Persons 18,340 Persons 6,549 Persons Spain
2020s 13,690 Persons 20,773 Persons 7,083 Persons Spain

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher employment by professional status, Australia or Spain?
Spain, at 22,221 Persons against 14,596 Persons in Australia as of 2025.
What is the difference in employment by professional status between Australia and Spain?
7,625 Persons, with Spain ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and Spain?
62 years are reported by both, from 1964 to 2025.
How do Australia and Spain rank globally for employment by professional status?
Australia ranks 13th and Spain ranks 11th 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

Indicator
Employment by professional status (ICSE-93)
Unit
Persons
Source
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Licence
OECD Terms and Conditions (attribution required)
Coverage
43 places, 2,053 data points, 1955–2025
Last refreshed

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.