Employment by professional status in Portugal
Portugal: Employment by professional status was 5,275 Persons in 2025. ▲ Rising
Employment by professional status in Portugal, 1956–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Persons.
Analysis
The most recent figure for employment by professional status in Portugal is 5,275 Persons, measured in 2025. That is the highest value across all 70 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 3.2% on the previous year and up 16.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, employment by professional status in Portugal peaked at 5,275 Persons in 2025 and was at its lowest, 3,155 Persons, in 1957.
Portugal ranks 17th of 33 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 70 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 3,233 Persons | 3,155 Persons | 3,290 Persons | 4 |
| 1960s | 3,262 Persons | 3,188 Persons | 3,316 Persons | 10 |
| 1970s | 3,596 Persons | 3,303 Persons | 3,854 Persons | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,094 Persons | 3,918 Persons | 4,377 Persons | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,561 Persons | 4,382 Persons | 4,925 Persons | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,077 Persons | 4,968 Persons | 5,143 Persons | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,679 Persons | 4,428 Persons | 4,912 Persons | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,996 Persons | 4,783 Persons | 5,275 Persons | 6 |
Countries ranked near Portugal
More work & labour data for Portugal
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Both sexes, annual -0.0538 % change on previous year (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Male, annual growth -0.055 % change on previous year (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Female, annual growth -0.0528 % change on previous year (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Rural population, annual growth rate -2.28 % change on previous year (2050)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Urban population, annual growth rate -0.1795 % change on previous year (2050)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Urban population 7,134 1000 No (2050)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Rural population 1,861 1000 No (2050)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Female 4,504 1000 No (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Male 4,250 1000 No (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Both sexes 8,754 1000 No (2100)
Frequently asked questions
- What is employment by professional status in Portugal?
- Employment by professional status in Portugal was 5,275 Persons in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest employment by professional status recorded in Portugal?
- The highest recorded value was 5,275 Persons in 2025.
- What is the lowest employment by professional status recorded in Portugal?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,155 Persons in 1957.
- How does Portugal rank for employment by professional status?
- Portugal ranks 17th out of 33 countries with data for 2025.
- Is employment by professional status rising or falling in Portugal?
- Over the last ten years it is up 16.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Portugal 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.