Japan vs United States of America: Employment by professional status
Employment by professional status over time
- Japan
- United States of America
How they compare
United States of America currently reports 163,493 Persons against 68,280 Persons in Japan, a difference of 95,213 Persons.
That makes United States of America's figure about 2.4 times Japan's.
Across all 71 years both countries report, United States of America has been ahead every year.
Japan ranks 4th and United States of America ranks 1st of 33 countries.
United States of America has averaged higher in every one of the 8 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Japan | United States of America | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 42,350 Persons | 63,541 Persons | 21,191 Persons | United States of America |
| 1960s | 47,259 Persons | 70,747 Persons | 23,488 Persons | United States of America |
| 1970s | 52,560 Persons | 87,354 Persons | 34,794 Persons | United States of America |
| 1980s | 57,964 Persons | 106,656 Persons | 48,692 Persons | United States of America |
| 1990s | 64,433 Persons | 124,444 Persons | 60,011 Persons | United States of America |
| 2000s | 63,650 Persons | 140,474 Persons | 76,824 Persons | United States of America |
| 2010s | 63,900 Persons | 147,854 Persons | 83,954 Persons | United States of America |
| 2020s | 67,370 Persons | 157,424 Persons | 90,054 Persons | United States of America |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher employment by professional status, Japan or United States of America?
- United States of America, at 163,493 Persons against 68,280 Persons in Japan as of 2025.
- What is the difference in employment by professional status between Japan and United States of America?
- 95,213 Persons, with United States of America ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Japan and United States of America?
- 71 years are reported by both, from 1955 to 2025.
- How do Japan and United States of America rank globally for employment by professional status?
- Japan ranks 4th and United States of America ranks 1st 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.