France vs United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Employment by professional status

France
29,328 Persons
in 2025
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
34,160 Persons
in 2025
France rank
8th
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland rank
7th

Employment by professional status over time

  • France
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
010.0k20.0k30.0k195519902025

How they compare

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland currently reports 34,160 Persons against 29,328 Persons in France, a difference of 4,832 Persons.

That makes United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's figure about 1.2 times France's.

Across all 70 years both countries report, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has been ahead every year.

France ranks 8th and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ranks 7th of 33 countries.

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has averaged higher in every one of the 8 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade France United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Difference Ahead
1950s 18,644 Persons 23,158 Persons 4,514 Persons United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
1960s 19,317 Persons 24,377 Persons 5,060 Persons United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
1970s 20,912 Persons 24,574 Persons 3,663 Persons United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
1980s 21,381 Persons 24,540 Persons 3,159 Persons United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
1990s 23,105 Persons 25,911 Persons 2,806 Persons United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2000s 25,185 Persons 28,605 Persons 3,420 Persons United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2010s 26,343 Persons 30,954 Persons 4,611 Persons United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2020s 28,324 Persons 33,197 Persons 4,873 Persons United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher employment by professional status, France or United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, at 34,160 Persons against 29,328 Persons in France as of 2025.
What is the difference in employment by professional status between France and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?
4,832 Persons, with United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for France and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?
70 years are reported by both, from 1956 to 2025.
How do France and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland rank globally for employment by professional status?
France ranks 8th and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ranks 7th 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.