France vs Italy: Employment by professional status
Employment by professional status over time
- France
- Italy
How they compare
France currently reports 29,328 Persons against 24,117 Persons in Italy, a difference of 5,211 Persons.
That makes France's figure about 1.2 times Italy's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 70 shared years of data; in 1956 it was Italy ahead.
France ranks 8th and Italy ranks 9th of 33 countries.
Across the 8 decades both report, France averaged higher in 6 and Italy in 2.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | France | Italy | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 18,644 Persons | 20,118 Persons | 1,474 Persons | Italy |
| 1960s | 19,317 Persons | 19,704 Persons | 387.3 Persons | Italy |
| 1970s | 20,912 Persons | 19,446 Persons | 1,466 Persons | France |
| 1980s | 21,381 Persons | 20,510 Persons | 871.46 Persons | France |
| 1990s | 23,105 Persons | 20,511 Persons | 2,595 Persons | France |
| 2000s | 25,185 Persons | 22,266 Persons | 2,920 Persons | France |
| 2010s | 26,343 Persons | 22,698 Persons | 3,646 Persons | France |
| 2020s | 28,324 Persons | 23,364 Persons | 4,960 Persons | France |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher employment by professional status, France or Italy?
- France, at 29,328 Persons against 24,117 Persons in Italy as of 2025.
- What is the difference in employment by professional status between France and Italy?
- 5,211 Persons, with France ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for France and Italy?
- 70 years are reported by both, from 1956 to 2025.
- How do France and Italy rank globally for employment by professional status?
- France ranks 8th and Italy ranks 9th 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.