France vs Germany: Employment by professional status
Employment by professional status over time
- France
- Germany
How they compare
Germany currently reports 42,726 Persons against 29,328 Persons in France, a difference of 13,398 Persons.
That makes Germany's figure about 1.5 times France's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Germany has been ahead every year.
France ranks 8th and Germany ranks 6th of 33 countries.
Germany has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | France | Germany | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 19,495 Persons | 33,714 Persons | 14,219 Persons | Germany |
| 1970s | 20,912 Persons | 33,274 Persons | 12,363 Persons | Germany |
| 1980s | 21,381 Persons | 33,086 Persons | 11,705 Persons | Germany |
| 1990s | 23,105 Persons | 36,125 Persons | 13,020 Persons | Germany |
| 2000s | 25,185 Persons | 36,881 Persons | 11,695 Persons | Germany |
| 2010s | 26,343 Persons | 40,275 Persons | 13,932 Persons | Germany |
| 2020s | 28,324 Persons | 42,094 Persons | 13,769 Persons | Germany |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher employment by professional status, France or Germany?
- Germany, at 42,726 Persons against 29,328 Persons in France as of 2025.
- What is the difference in employment by professional status between France and Germany?
- 13,398 Persons, with Germany ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for France and Germany?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1962 to 2025.
- How do France and Germany rank globally for employment by professional status?
- France ranks 8th and Germany ranks 6th 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.