Finland vs Norway: Employment by professional status
Employment by professional status over time
- Finland
- Norway
How they compare
Norway currently reports 2,923 Persons against 2,613 Persons in Finland, a difference of 310 Persons.
That makes Norway's figure about 1.1 times Finland's.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 66 shared years of data; in 1959 it was Finland ahead.
Finland ranks 30th and Norway ranks 27th of 33 countries.
Across the 8 decades both report, Finland averaged higher in 6 and Norway in 2.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Finland | Norway | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 2,026 Persons | 1,383 Persons | 643 Persons | Finland |
| 1960s | 2,112 Persons | 1,434 Persons | 677.8 Persons | Finland |
| 1970s | 2,192 Persons | 1,715 Persons | 477.56 Persons | Finland |
| 1980s | 2,399 Persons | 1,976 Persons | 422.8 Persons | Finland |
| 1990s | 2,203 Persons | 2,068 Persons | 135.34 Persons | Finland |
| 2000s | 2,413 Persons | 2,340 Persons | 72.56 Persons | Finland |
| 2010s | 2,477 Persons | 2,617 Persons | 140.24 Persons | Norway |
| 2020s | 2,604 Persons | 2,847 Persons | 242.89 Persons | Norway |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher employment by professional status, Finland or Norway?
- Norway, at 2,923 Persons against 2,613 Persons in Finland as of 2025.
- What is the difference in employment by professional status between Finland and Norway?
- 310 Persons, with Norway ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Finland and Norway?
- 66 years are reported by both, from 1959 to 2025.
- How do Finland and Norway rank globally for employment by professional status?
- Finland ranks 30th and Norway ranks 27th 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.