Employment by professional status in Colombia

Colombia: Employment by professional status was 23,827 Persons in 2025. ▲ Rising

Latest (2025)
23,827 Persons
Change on year
up 3.4%
World rank
10th
of 33 countries
All-time high
23,827 Persons
in 2025
All-time low
15,777 Persons
in 2001
Years of data
25
2001–2025

Employment by professional status in Colombia, 2001–2025

05.0k10.0k15.0k20.0k25.0k2001201320252001: 15.8k Persons2002: 15.9k Persons2003: 16.6k Persons2004: 16.7k Persons2005: 17.0k Persons2006: 16.9k Persons2007: 16.7k Persons2008: 17.0k Persons2009: 17.9k Persons2010: 18.6k Persons2011: 19.2k Persons2012: 19.8k Persons2013: 20.0k Persons2014: 20.5k Persons2015: 20.9k Persons2016: 20.9k Persons2017: 21.1k Persons2018: 21.3k Persons2019: 21.3k Persons2020: 19.0k Persons2021: 20.4k Persons2022: 22.0k Persons2023: 22.8k Persons2024: 23.0k Persons2025: 23.8k Persons

Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Persons.

Analysis

Colombia recorded 23,827 Persons for employment by professional status in 2025. That is the highest value across all 25 years on record.

That represents a change of up 3.4% on the previous year and up 14.2% over ten years.

Over the whole period, employment by professional status in Colombia peaked at 23,827 Persons in 2025 and was at its lowest, 15,777 Persons, in 2001.

Colombia ranks 10th of 33 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 25 years of available data.

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
2000s 16,714 Persons 15,777 Persons 17,889 Persons 9
2010s 20,354 Persons 18,575 Persons 21,310 Persons 10
2020s 21,854 Persons 19,049 Persons 23,827 Persons 6

Countries ranked near Colombia

  1. 7 United Kingdom 34,160 Persons compare
  2. 8 France 29,328 Persons compare
  3. 9 Italy 24,117 Persons compare
  4. 11 Spain 22,221 Persons compare
  5. 12 Canada 21,029 Persons compare
  6. 13 Australia 14,596 Persons compare

See the full ranking of 43 places →

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Frequently asked questions

What is employment by professional status in Colombia?
Employment by professional status in Colombia was 23,827 Persons in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
What is the highest employment by professional status recorded in Colombia?
The highest recorded value was 23,827 Persons in 2025.
What is the lowest employment by professional status recorded in Colombia?
The lowest recorded value was 15,777 Persons in 2001.
How does Colombia rank for employment by professional status?
Colombia ranks 10th out of 33 countries with data for 2025.
Is employment by professional status rising or falling in Colombia?
Over the last ten years it is up 14.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Colombia 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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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.