Employment by professional status in New Zealand
New Zealand: Employment by professional status was 2,877 Persons in 2025. ▲ Rising
Employment by professional status in New Zealand, 1956–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Persons.
Analysis
In 2025, employment by professional status in New Zealand stood at 2,877 Persons.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.7% on the previous year and up 21.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, employment by professional status in New Zealand peaked at 2,902 Persons in 2023 and was at its lowest, 806.55 Persons, in 1956.
New Zealand ranks 28th of 33 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 70 years of available data.
Employment by professional status in New Zealand, year by year
| Year | Persons | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 806.55 Persons | — |
| 1957 | 817.9 Persons | +1.4% |
| 1958 | 834.9 Persons | +2.1% |
| 1959 | 848.8 Persons | +1.7% |
| 1960 | 862.2 Persons | +1.6% |
| 1961 | 882 Persons | +2.3% |
| 1962 | 897.8 Persons | +1.8% |
| 1963 | 917.2 Persons | +2.2% |
| 1964 | 944.5 Persons | +3.0% |
| 1965 | 978.2 Persons | +3.6% |
| 1966 | 1,012 Persons | +3.5% |
| 1967 | 1,036 Persons | +2.3% |
| 1968 | 1,023 Persons | -1.2% |
| 1969 | 1,045 Persons | +2.1% |
| 1970 | 1,076 Persons | +2.9% |
| 1971 | 1,099 Persons | +2.2% |
| 1972 | 1,102 Persons | +0.2% |
| 1973 | 1,141 Persons | +3.5% |
| 1974 | 1,191 Persons | +4.4% |
| 1975 | 1,212 Persons | +1.7% |
| 1976 | 1,251 Persons | +3.2% |
| 1977 | 1,250 Persons | -0.1% |
| 1978 | 1,244 Persons | -0.5% |
| 1979 | 1,262 Persons | +1.5% |
| 1980 | 1,260 Persons | -0.1% |
| 1981 | 1,271 Persons | +0.9% |
| 1982 | 1,280 Persons | +0.7% |
| 1983 | 1,266 Persons | -1.1% |
| 1984 | 1,280 Persons | +1.1% |
| 1985 | 1,329 Persons | +3.8% |
| 1986 | 1,618 Persons | +21.8% |
| 1987 | 1,624 Persons | +0.4% |
| 1988 | 1,572 Persons | -3.2% |
| 1989 | 1,524 Persons | -3.1% |
| 1990 | 1,535 Persons | +0.7% |
| 1991 | 1,509 Persons | -1.7% |
| 1992 | 1,514 Persons | +0.3% |
| 1993 | 1,545 Persons | +2.0% |
| 1994 | 1,611 Persons | +4.3% |
| 1995 | 1,686 Persons | +4.7% |
| 1996 | 1,740 Persons | +3.2% |
| 1997 | 1,750 Persons | +0.6% |
| 1998 | 1,738 Persons | -0.7% |
| 1999 | 1,766 Persons | +1.6% |
| 2000 | 1,799 Persons | +1.9% |
| 2001 | 1,845 Persons | +2.6% |
| 2002 | 1,905 Persons | +3.3% |
| 2003 | 1,953 Persons | +2.5% |
| 2004 | 2,023 Persons | +3.6% |
| 2005 | 2,082 Persons | +2.9% |
| 2006 | 2,131 Persons | +2.4% |
| 2007 | 2,168 Persons | +1.7% |
| 2008 | 2,175 Persons | +0.3% |
| 2009 | 2,145 Persons | -1.4% |
| 2010 | 2,154 Persons | +0.4% |
| 2011 | 2,185 Persons | +1.4% |
| 2012 | 2,180 Persons | -0.2% |
| 2013 | 2,224 Persons | +2.0% |
| 2014 | 2,308 Persons | +3.8% |
| 2015 | 2,369 Persons | +2.6% |
| 2016 | 2,483 Persons | +4.8% |
| 2017 | 2,586 Persons | +4.1% |
| 2018 | 2,652 Persons | +2.6% |
| 2019 | 2,689 Persons | +1.4% |
| 2020 | 2,718 Persons | +1.1% |
| 2021 | 2,772 Persons | +2.0% |
| 2022 | 2,813 Persons | +1.5% |
| 2023 | 2,902 Persons | +3.2% |
| 2024 | 2,896 Persons | -0.2% |
| 2025 | 2,877 Persons | -0.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 827.04 Persons | 806.55 Persons | 848.8 Persons | 4 |
| 1960s | 959.86 Persons | 862.2 Persons | 1,045 Persons | 10 |
| 1970s | 1,183 Persons | 1,076 Persons | 1,262 Persons | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,402 Persons | 1,260 Persons | 1,624 Persons | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,639 Persons | 1,509 Persons | 1,766 Persons | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,023 Persons | 1,799 Persons | 2,175 Persons | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,383 Persons | 2,154 Persons | 2,689 Persons | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,830 Persons | 2,718 Persons | 2,902 Persons | 6 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is employment by professional status in New Zealand?
- Employment by professional status in New Zealand was 2,877 Persons in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest employment by professional status recorded in New Zealand?
- The highest recorded value was 2,902 Persons in 2023.
- What is the lowest employment by professional status recorded in New Zealand?
- The lowest recorded value was 806.55 Persons in 1956.
- How does New Zealand rank for employment by professional status?
- New Zealand ranks 28th out of 33 countries with data for 2025.
- Is employment by professional status rising or falling in New Zealand?
- Over the last ten years it is up 21.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this New Zealand 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.