Germany vs Italy: Employment by professional status

Germany
42,726 Persons
in 2025
Italy
24,117 Persons
in 2025
Germany rank
6th
Italy rank
9th

Employment by professional status over time

  • Germany
  • Italy
010.0k20.0k30.0k40.0k195619902025

How they compare

Germany currently reports 42,726 Persons against 24,117 Persons in Italy, a difference of 18,609 Persons.

That makes Germany's figure about 1.8 times Italy's.

Across all 64 years both countries report, Germany has been ahead every year.

Germany ranks 6th and Italy ranks 9th of 33 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Germany Italy Difference Ahead
1960s 33,714 Persons 19,550 Persons 14,164 Persons Germany
1970s 33,274 Persons 19,446 Persons 13,829 Persons Germany
1980s 33,086 Persons 20,510 Persons 12,576 Persons Germany
1990s 36,125 Persons 20,511 Persons 15,614 Persons Germany
2000s 36,881 Persons 22,266 Persons 14,615 Persons Germany
2010s 40,275 Persons 22,698 Persons 17,577 Persons Germany
2020s 42,094 Persons 23,364 Persons 18,729 Persons Germany

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher employment by professional status, Germany or Italy?
Germany, at 42,726 Persons against 24,117 Persons in Italy as of 2025.
What is the difference in employment by professional status between Germany and Italy?
18,609 Persons, with Germany ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Germany and Italy?
64 years are reported by both, from 1962 to 2025.
How do Germany and Italy rank globally for employment by professional status?
Germany ranks 6th 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

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.