Employment by professional status (ICSE-93) in Netherlands
Netherlands: Employment by professional status (ICSE-93) was 9,899 Persons in 2025. ▲ Rising
Employment by professional status in Netherlands, 1975–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Persons.
Analysis
The most recent figure for employment by professional status in Netherlands is 9,899 Persons, measured in 2025. That is the highest value across all 51 years on record.
The figure is up 0.4% on the previous year and up 19.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, employment by professional status in Netherlands peaked at 9,899 Persons in 2025 and was at its lowest, 4,640 Persons, in 1975.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 51 years of available data.
Employment by professional status (ICSE-93) in Netherlands, year by year
| Year | Persons | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 4,640 Persons | — |
| 1976 | 4,654 Persons | +0.3% |
| 1977 | 4,701 Persons | +1.0% |
| 1978 | 4,757 Persons | +1.2% |
| 1979 | 4,821 Persons | +1.3% |
| 1980 | 4,970 Persons | +3.1% |
| 1981 | 5,072 Persons | +2.1% |
| 1982 | 5,010 Persons | -1.2% |
| 1983 | 4,952 Persons | -1.2% |
| 1984 | 4,980 Persons | +0.6% |
| 1985 | 5,124 Persons | +2.9% |
| 1986 | 5,155 Persons | +0.6% |
| 1987 | 5,851 Persons | +13.5% |
| 1988 | 5,910 Persons | +1.0% |
| 1989 | 6,030 Persons | +2.0% |
| 1990 | 6,274 Persons | +4.0% |
| 1991 | 6,420 Persons | +2.3% |
| 1992 | 6,614 Persons | +3.0% |
| 1993 | 6,640 Persons | +0.4% |
| 1994 | 6,706 Persons | +1.0% |
| 1995 | 6,782 Persons | +1.1% |
| 1996 | 6,932 Persons | +2.2% |
| 1997 | 7,186 Persons | +3.7% |
| 1998 | 7,402 Persons | +3.0% |
| 1999 | 7,605 Persons | +2.7% |
| 2000 | 7,870 Persons | +3.5% |
| 2001 | 8,068 Persons | +2.5% |
| 2002 | 8,167 Persons | +1.2% |
| 2003 | 8,121 Persons | -0.6% |
| 2004 | 8,105 Persons | -0.2% |
| 2005 | 7,831 Persons | -3.4% |
| 2006 | 7,956 Persons | +1.6% |
| 2007 | 8,187 Persons | +2.9% |
| 2008 | 8,378 Persons | +2.3% |
| 2009 | 8,383 Persons | +0.1% |
| 2010 | 8,290 Persons | -1.1% |
| 2011 | 8,291 Persons | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 8,345 Persons | +0.6% |
| 2013 | 8,285 Persons | -0.7% |
| 2014 | 8,236 Persons | -0.6% |
| 2015 | 8,318 Persons | +1.0% |
| 2016 | 8,427 Persons | +1.3% |
| 2017 | 8,605 Persons | +2.1% |
| 2018 | 8,797 Persons | +2.2% |
| 2019 | 8,982 Persons | +2.1% |
| 2020 | 8,981 Persons | -0.0% |
| 2021 | 9,282 Persons | +3.4% |
| 2022 | 9,587 Persons | +3.3% |
| 2023 | 9,781 Persons | +2.0% |
| 2024 | 9,863 Persons | +0.8% |
| 2025 | 9,899 Persons | +0.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 4,715 Persons | 4,640 Persons | 4,821 Persons | 5 |
| 1980s | 5,305 Persons | 4,952 Persons | 6,030 Persons | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,856 Persons | 6,274 Persons | 7,605 Persons | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,107 Persons | 7,831 Persons | 8,383 Persons | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,458 Persons | 8,236 Persons | 8,982 Persons | 10 |
| 2020s | 9,565 Persons | 8,981 Persons | 9,899 Persons | 6 |
Countries ranked near Netherlands
- 1 United States 163,493 Persons compare
- 1 Türkiye 32,569 Persons compare
- 2 Poland 17,241 Persons compare
- 2 Brazil 103,224 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 Mexico 59,440 Persons compare
- 5 Slovenia 996.6 Persons compare
- 6 Germany 42,726 Persons compare
- 6 Latvia 889.67 Persons compare
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- Employed persons by job tenure and NUTS 2 region 9,833 Thousand persons (2025)
- Population in private households by country of birth, labour status 13,426 Thousand persons (2025)
- Employed persons by educational attainment level and NUTS 2 region 9,833 Thousand persons (2025)
- Employed persons by professional status and NUTS 2 region 9,833 Thousand persons (2025)
- Average actual weekly hours worked in the main job of persons who 30.4 Hour (2025)
- Employed persons by NUTS 2 region 9,833 Thousand persons (2025)
- Labour force participation rates by NUTS 2 region 76.2% (2025)
- Labour force by NUTS 2 region 10,229 Thousand persons (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is employment by professional status in Netherlands?
- Employment by professional status in Netherlands was 9,899 Persons in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest employment by professional status recorded in Netherlands?
- The highest recorded value was 9,899 Persons in 2025.
- What is the lowest employment by professional status recorded in Netherlands?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,640 Persons in 1975.
- How does Netherlands rank for employment by professional status?
- Netherlands ranks 3rd out of 7 countries with data for 2025.
- Is employment by professional status rising or falling in Netherlands?
- Over the last ten years it is up 19.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Netherlands 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.