Employment by professional status in Australia
Australia: Employment by professional status was 14,596 Persons in 2025. ▲ Rising
Employment by professional status in Australia, 1964–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Persons.
Analysis
Australia recorded 14,596 Persons for employment by professional status in 2025. That is the highest value across all 62 years on record.
The figure is up 1.7% on the previous year and up 24.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, employment by professional status in Australia peaked at 14,596 Persons in 2025 and was at its lowest, 4,496 Persons, in 1964.
Australia ranks 13th of 33 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 62 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,845 Persons | 4,496 Persons | 5,188 Persons | 6 |
| 1970s | 5,807 Persons | 5,387 Persons | 6,111 Persons | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,783 Persons | 6,284 Persons | 7,720 Persons | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,076 Persons | 7,634 Persons | 8,673 Persons | 10 |
| 2000s | 9,804 Persons | 8,902 Persons | 10,806 Persons | 10 |
| 2010s | 11,790 Persons | 11,022 Persons | 12,830 Persons | 10 |
| 2020s | 13,690 Persons | 12,604 Persons | 14,596 Persons | 6 |
Countries ranked near Australia
More work & labour data for Australia
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Both sexes, annual 0.5057 % change on previous year (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Male, annual growth 0.4907 % change on previous year (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Female, annual growth 0.5202 % change on previous year (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Rural population, annual growth rate -0.9895 % change on previous year (2050)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Urban population, annual growth rate 0.8931 % change on previous year (2050)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Urban population 30,186 1000 No (2050)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Rural population 3,001 1000 No (2050)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Female 21,642 1000 No (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Male 21,502 1000 No (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Both sexes 43,144 1000 No (2100)
Frequently asked questions
- What is employment by professional status in Australia?
- Employment by professional status in Australia was 14,596 Persons in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest employment by professional status recorded in Australia?
- The highest recorded value was 14,596 Persons in 2025.
- What is the lowest employment by professional status recorded in Australia?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,496 Persons in 1964.
- How does Australia rank for employment by professional status?
- Australia ranks 13th out of 33 countries with data for 2025.
- Is employment by professional status rising or falling in Australia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 24.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Australia data come from?
- The figures come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as part of Employment by professional status (ICSE-93). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.