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Employment in care occupations

Compare employment in care occupations across 34 countries or territories using one fixed 2025 ILOSTAT reference slice.

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Key Insights

Global Average
4,311.3Thousand persons
Median: 800.0Thousand persons
Countries Covered
34
with available data
Highest
United States of America
41,899.0Thousand persons
Lowest
Vanuatu
11.2Thousand persons
Top 5 Countries
1United States of America41,899.0Thousand persons
2India31,465.7Thousand persons
3Brazil20,641.7Thousand persons
4United Kingdom9,402.1Thousand persons
5Mexico7,534.9Thousand persons
By Region
North America24,716.9Thousand persons(2 countries)
Asia10,149.2Thousand persons(4 countries)
South America4,916.3Thousand persons(6 countries)
Oceania3,853.9Thousand persons(1 countries)
Europe2,690.2Thousand persons(5 countries)
Key Findings
  • 34 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite Thousand persons observation in the fixed 2025 slice.
  • United States of America has the highest published value (41899 Thousand persons).
  • Vanuatu has the lowest published value (11.152 Thousand persons).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (11.2Thousand persons)High (41,899.0Thousand persons)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 4,311.3Thousand persons)

North America (2)
Asia (4)
South America (6)
Oceania (1)
Europe (5)
Africa (1)
Other (15)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

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About This Statistic

With the aim of promoting international comparability, statistics presented on ILOSTAT are based on standard international definitions wherever feasible and may differ from official national figures. This series is based on the 13th ICLS definitions. For time series comparability, it includes countries that have implemented the 19th ICLS standards, for which data are also available in the Work Statistics -- 19th ICLS (WORK) database. The employed comprise all persons of working age who, during a specified brief period, were in one of the following categories: a) paid employment (whether at work or with a job but not at work); or b) self-employment (whether at work or with an enterprise but not at work). For more information, refer to the Worker and Sector Profiles (PROF) database description .

MapTheory uses only finite ISO-mapped observations from the fixed 2025 ILOSTAT slice recorded below. Aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicate observations, and every other year or dimension slice are excluded; MapTheory never imputes or interpolates missing countries.

Methodology

With the aim of promoting international comparability, statistics presented on ILOSTAT are based on standard international definitions wherever feasible and may differ from official national figures. This series is based on the 13th ICLS definitions. For time series comparability, it includes countries that have implemented the 19th ICLS standards, for which data are also available in the Work Statistics -- 19th ICLS (WORK) database. The employed comprise all persons of working age who, during a specified brief period, were in one of the following categories: a) paid employment (whether at work or with a job but not at work); or b) self-employment (whether at work or with an enterprise but not at work). For more information, refer to the Worker and Sector Profiles (PROF) database description .

Full Data

Rank Country Value
1United States of America41,899.0Thousand persons
2India31,465.7Thousand persons
3Brazil20,641.7Thousand persons
4United Kingdom9,402.1Thousand persons
5Mexico7,534.9Thousand persons
6Pakistan6,431.3Thousand persons
7Türkiye4,590.4Thousand persons
8Australia3,853.9Thousand persons
9Colombia3,002.0Thousand persons
10Argentina2,855.0Thousand persons
11Thailand2,347.7Thousand persons
12Peru1,875.7Thousand persons
13Switzerland1,252.3Thousand persons
14Angola1,185.9Thousand persons
15Portugal1,134.8Thousand persons
16Austria951.6Thousand persons
17Dominican Republic863.5Thousand persons
18Ecuador736.5Thousand persons
19Greece710.3Thousand persons
20Bolivia518.4Thousand persons
21Rwanda443.7Thousand persons
22Honduras417.7Thousand persons
23Costa Rica403.4Thousand persons
24El Salvador392.7Thousand persons
25Uruguay386.7Thousand persons
26Panama377.3Thousand persons
27Singapore352.2Thousand persons
28Mongolia192.7Thousand persons
29State of Palestine117.2Thousand persons
30The Republic of North Macedonia102.4Thousand persons
31Republic of The Gambia60.4Thousand persons
32Seychelles41.6Thousand persons
33Bhutan30.9Thousand persons
34Vanuatu11.2Thousand persons
Showing 34 of 34 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from International Labour Organization (ILO) (2025).

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