Employment by professional status (ICSE-93) in Mexico
Mexico: Employment by professional status (ICSE-93) was 59,440 Persons in 2025. ▲ Rising
Employment by professional status in Mexico, 1970–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Persons.
Analysis
Mexico recorded 59,440 Persons for employment by professional status in 2025. That is the highest value across all 38 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.1% on the previous year and up 17.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, employment by professional status in Mexico peaked at 59,440 Persons in 2025 and was at its lowest, 12,424 Persons, in 1970.
That places Mexico 5th out of 33 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 38 years of available data.
Employment by professional status (ICSE-93) in Mexico, year by year
| Year | Persons | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 12,424 Persons | — |
| 1980 | 21,393 Persons | +72.2% |
| 1990 | 23,403 Persons | +9.4% |
| 1991 | 29,226 Persons | +24.9% |
| 1992 | 30,259 Persons | +3.5% |
| 1993 | 31,340 Persons | +3.6% |
| 1994 | 32,439 Persons | +3.5% |
| 1995 | 32,175 Persons | -0.8% |
| 1996 | 33,496 Persons | +4.1% |
| 1997 | 35,425 Persons | +5.8% |
| 1998 | 36,357 Persons | +2.6% |
| 1999 | 36,775 Persons | +1.1% |
| 2000 | 37,594 Persons | +2.2% |
| 2001 | 37,684 Persons | +0.2% |
| 2002 | 38,560 Persons | +2.3% |
| 2003 | 38,878 Persons | +0.8% |
| 2004 | 40,216 Persons | +3.4% |
| 2005 | 42,079 Persons | +4.6% |
| 2006 | 43,378 Persons | +3.1% |
| 2007 | 44,231 Persons | +2.0% |
| 2008 | 44,944 Persons | +1.6% |
| 2009 | 45,435 Persons | +1.1% |
| 2010 | 46,122 Persons | +1.5% |
| 2011 | 47,139 Persons | +2.2% |
| 2012 | 48,707 Persons | +3.3% |
| 2013 | 49,227 Persons | +1.1% |
| 2014 | 49,415 Persons | +0.4% |
| 2015 | 50,611 Persons | +2.4% |
| 2016 | 51,595 Persons | +1.9% |
| 2017 | 51,680 Persons | +0.2% |
| 2018 | 53,162 Persons | +2.9% |
| 2019 | 54,615 Persons | +2.7% |
| 2020 | 50,927 Persons | -6.8% |
| 2021 | 55,166 Persons | +8.3% |
| 2022 | 57,322 Persons | +3.9% |
| 2023 | 58,896 Persons | +2.7% |
| 2024 | 59,366 Persons | +0.8% |
| 2025 | 59,440 Persons | +0.1% |
Mexico compared with similar countries
- Mexico's 59,440 Persons is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 23,827 Persons, 2.5× the median. (5 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Employment by professional status (ICSE-93) in Mexico changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | +72.2% | 12,424 Persons | 21,393 Persons |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 12,424 Persons | 12,424 Persons | 12,424 Persons | 1 |
| 1980s | 21,393 Persons | 21,393 Persons | 21,393 Persons | 1 |
| 1990s | 32,090 Persons | 23,403 Persons | 36,775 Persons | 10 |
| 2000s | 41,300 Persons | 37,594 Persons | 45,435 Persons | 10 |
| 2010s | 50,227 Persons | 46,122 Persons | 54,615 Persons | 10 |
| 2020s | 56,853 Persons | 50,927 Persons | 59,440 Persons | 6 |
Countries ranked near Mexico
- 2 Poland 17,241 Persons compare
- 2 Brazil 103,224 Persons compare
- 3 Netherlands 9,899 Persons compare
- 3 Russia 70,601 Persons compare
- 3 Croatia 1,702 Persons compare
- 4 Japan 68,280 Persons compare
- 4 Lithuania 1,463 Persons compare
- 5 Slovenia 996.6 Persons compare
- 6 Germany 42,726 Persons compare
- 6 Latvia 889.67 Persons compare
- 7 Estonia 698.77 Persons compare
- 7 United Kingdom 34,160 Persons compare
- 8 France 29,328 Persons compare
More work & labour data for Mexico
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Both sexes, annual -0.5786 % change on previous year (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Male, annual growth -0.5539 % change on previous year (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Female, annual growth -0.6038 % change on previous year (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Rural population, annual growth rate -1.41 % change on previous year (2050)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Urban population, annual growth rate 0.5363 % change on previous year (2050)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Urban population 144,910 1000 No (2050)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Rural population 19,369 1000 No (2050)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Female 65,616 1000 No (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Male 64,633 1000 No (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Both sexes 130,249 1000 No (2100)
Frequently asked questions
- What is employment by professional status in Mexico?
- Employment by professional status in Mexico was 59,440 Persons in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest employment by professional status recorded in Mexico?
- The highest recorded value was 59,440 Persons in 2025.
- What is the lowest employment by professional status recorded in Mexico?
- The lowest recorded value was 12,424 Persons in 1970.
- How does Mexico rank for employment by professional status?
- Mexico ranks 5th out of 33 countries with data for 2025.
- Is employment by professional status rising or falling in Mexico?
- Over the last ten years it is up 17.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Mexico 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.