Italy vs Spain: Employment by professional status
Employment by professional status over time
- Italy
- Spain
How they compare
Italy currently reports 24,117 Persons against 22,221 Persons in Spain, a difference of 1,896 Persons.
That makes Italy's figure about 1.1 times Spain's.
Across all 70 years both countries report, Italy has been ahead every year.
Italy ranks 9th and Spain ranks 11th of 33 countries.
Italy has averaged higher in every one of the 8 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Italy | Spain | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 20,118 Persons | 11,540 Persons | 8,578 Persons | Italy |
| 1960s | 19,704 Persons | 11,885 Persons | 7,819 Persons | Italy |
| 1970s | 19,446 Persons | 12,529 Persons | 6,917 Persons | Italy |
| 1980s | 20,510 Persons | 11,530 Persons | 8,979 Persons | Italy |
| 1990s | 20,511 Persons | 13,002 Persons | 7,508 Persons | Italy |
| 2000s | 22,266 Persons | 18,336 Persons | 3,929 Persons | Italy |
| 2010s | 22,698 Persons | 18,340 Persons | 4,358 Persons | Italy |
| 2020s | 23,364 Persons | 20,773 Persons | 2,591 Persons | Italy |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher employment by professional status, Italy or Spain?
- Italy, at 24,117 Persons against 22,221 Persons in Spain as of 2025.
- What is the difference in employment by professional status between Italy and Spain?
- 1,896 Persons, with Italy ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Italy and Spain?
- 70 years are reported by both, from 1956 to 2025.
- How do Italy and Spain rank globally for employment by professional status?
- Italy ranks 9th and Spain ranks 11th 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.