Employment by professional status in Norway
Norway: Employment by professional status was 2,923 Persons in 2025. ▲ Rising
Employment by professional status in Norway, 1956–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Persons.
Analysis
The most recent figure for employment by professional status in Norway is 2,923 Persons, measured in 2025. That is the highest value across all 69 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.5% on the previous year and up 10.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, employment by professional status in Norway peaked at 2,923 Persons in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,383 Persons, in 1958.
Norway ranks 27th of 33 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 69 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 1,391 Persons | 1,383 Persons | 1,399 Persons | 4 |
| 1960s | 1,434 Persons | 1,395 Persons | 1,474 Persons | 10 |
| 1970s | 1,715 Persons | 1,497 Persons | 1,862 Persons | 9 |
| 1980s | 1,976 Persons | 1,875 Persons | 2,090 Persons | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,068 Persons | 1,970 Persons | 2,233 Persons | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,340 Persons | 2,255 Persons | 2,514 Persons | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,617 Persons | 2,501 Persons | 2,716 Persons | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,847 Persons | 2,702 Persons | 2,923 Persons | 6 |
Countries ranked near Norway
More work & labour data for Norway
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Both sexes, annual -0.2322 % change on previous year (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Male, annual growth -0.2413 % change on previous year (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Female, annual growth -0.2229 % change on previous year (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Rural population, annual growth rate -1.14 % change on previous year (2050)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Urban population, annual growth rate 0.7506 % change on previous year (2050)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Urban population 6,138 1000 No (2050)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Rural population 663.52 1000 No (2050)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Female 2,690 1000 No (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Male 2,724 1000 No (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Both sexes 5,414 1000 No (2100)
Frequently asked questions
- What is employment by professional status in Norway?
- Employment by professional status in Norway was 2,923 Persons in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest employment by professional status recorded in Norway?
- The highest recorded value was 2,923 Persons in 2025.
- What is the lowest employment by professional status recorded in Norway?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,383 Persons in 1958.
- How does Norway rank for employment by professional status?
- Norway ranks 27th out of 33 countries with data for 2025.
- Is employment by professional status rising or falling in Norway?
- Over the last ten years it is up 10.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Norway 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.