Korea vs United States: Employment by professional status
Employment by professional status over time
- Korea
- United States
How they compare
United States currently reports 163,493 Persons against 28,769 Persons in Korea, a difference of 134,724 Persons.
That makes United States's figure about 5.7 times Korea's.
Across all 43 years both countries report, United States has been ahead every year.
Korea ranks 1st and United States ranks 1st of 3 groups.
United States has averaged higher in every one of the 5 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Korea | United States | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 15,742 Persons | 109,619 Persons | 93,878 Persons | United States |
| 1990s | 19,754 Persons | 124,444 Persons | 104,690 Persons | United States |
| 2000s | 22,696 Persons | 140,474 Persons | 117,778 Persons | United States |
| 2010s | 25,797 Persons | 147,854 Persons | 122,057 Persons | United States |
| 2020s | 28,004 Persons | 157,424 Persons | 129,419 Persons | United States |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher employment by professional status, Korea or United States?
- United States, at 163,493 Persons against 28,769 Persons in Korea as of 2025.
- What is the difference in employment by professional status between Korea and United States?
- 134,724 Persons, with United States ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Korea and United States?
- 43 years are reported by both, from 1983 to 2025.
- How do Korea and United States rank globally for employment by professional status?
- Korea ranks 1st and United States ranks 1st of 3 groups.
- 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.