Employment by professional status in Spain
Spain: Employment by professional status was 22,221 Persons in 2025. ▲ Rising
Employment by professional status in Spain, 1956–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Persons.
Analysis
In 2025, employment by professional status in Spain stood at 22,221 Persons. That is the highest value across all 70 years on record.
That represents a change of up 2.6% on the previous year and up 24.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, employment by professional status in Spain peaked at 22,221 Persons in 2025 and was at its lowest, 10,903 Persons, in 1985.
That places Spain 11th out of 33 countries with data for 2025, putting it 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 | 11,540 Persons | 11,334 Persons | 11,720 Persons | 4 |
| 1960s | 11,885 Persons | 11,551 Persons | 12,306 Persons | 10 |
| 1970s | 12,529 Persons | 12,109 Persons | 12,924 Persons | 10 |
| 1980s | 11,530 Persons | 10,903 Persons | 12,558 Persons | 10 |
| 1990s | 13,002 Persons | 12,170 Persons | 14,690 Persons | 10 |
| 2000s | 18,336 Persons | 15,506 Persons | 20,580 Persons | 10 |
| 2010s | 18,340 Persons | 17,139 Persons | 19,779 Persons | 10 |
| 2020s | 20,773 Persons | 19,202 Persons | 22,221 Persons | 6 |
Countries ranked near Spain
More work & labour data for Spain
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Both sexes, annual -0.527 % change on previous year (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Male, annual growth -0.5576 % change on previous year (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Female, annual growth -0.4982 % change on previous year (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Rural population, annual growth rate -2.05 % change on previous year (2050)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Urban population, annual growth rate -0.1207 % change on previous year (2050)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Urban population 39,073 1000 No (2050)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Rural population 5,322 1000 No (2050)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Female 17,076 1000 No (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Male 16,051 1000 No (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Both sexes 33,128 1000 No (2100)
Frequently asked questions
- What is employment by professional status in Spain?
- Employment by professional status in Spain was 22,221 Persons in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest employment by professional status recorded in Spain?
- The highest recorded value was 22,221 Persons in 2025.
- What is the lowest employment by professional status recorded in Spain?
- The lowest recorded value was 10,903 Persons in 1985.
- How does Spain rank for employment by professional status?
- Spain ranks 11th out of 33 countries with data for 2025.
- Is employment by professional status rising or falling in Spain?
- Over the last ten years it is up 24.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Spain 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.