ICT specialists as a share of total employment (proxy for software jobs per capita)
Germany has 5.2% of total employment in ICT specialist roles (OECD), a strong cross-country proxy for software jobs per capita and tech workforce intensity.
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Key Insights
- •Germany’s ICT specialist share (5.2%) is above several large European peers such as France (4.6%), Spain (4.3%), and Italy (3.7%).
- •Nordic and Baltic countries lead this proxy measure (e.g., Sweden 8.6%, Finland 8.3%, Estonia 7.8%), indicating very high tech workforce intensity.
- •Several advanced economies report mid-range values (e.g., Canada 5.0%, Netherlands 6.9%, UK 6.5%), suggesting substantial but varying ICT labor concentration.
- •Some countries show comparatively low shares (e.g., Turkey 2.0%, Japan 2.1%, Greece 2.5%), which may reflect labor-market structure, classification, and sector mix as well as ICT workforce size.
Country Rankings
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Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 4.9%)
About This Statistic
Direct, globally consistent measures of “software jobs per capita” are rarely available as official statistics. The best widely comparable proxy is the OECD indicator for ICT specialists as a percentage of total employment, which includes software developers/programmers along with other ICT specialist occupations.
For Germany, the latest OECD value shown in the OECD ICT specialists dataset is 5.2% of total employment. This is best interpreted as “tech/ICT specialist job intensity” rather than strictly software-only roles, but it correlates strongly with the size of a country’s software and digital workforce. For true per-capita estimates, this share can be combined with total employment and population to derive ICT specialists per 100,000 people; however, this object provides the cleanest official cross-country measure for mapping.
Methodology
Uses the OECD ‘ICT specialists’ indicator: the share of employed persons whose occupation is classified as an ICT specialist, expressed as a percentage of total employment. This serves as an official, cross-country comparable proxy for software job intensity. Values are mapped as reported by OECD (latest available by country; Germany value shown as 5.2).
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sweden | 8.6% |
| 2 | Finland | 8.3% |
| 3 | Estonia | 7.8% |
| 4 | Netherlands | 6.9% |
| 5 | Denmark | 6.8% |
| 6 | Ireland | 6.7% |
| 7 | United Kingdom | 6.5% |
| 8 | Australia | 5.6% |
| 9 | Norway | 5.5% |
| 10 | Germany | 5.2% |
| 11 | Switzerland | 5.1% |
| 12 | Canada | 5.0% |
| 13 | New Zealand | 5.0% |
| 14 | Czech Republic | 4.9% |
| 15 | Luxembourg | 4.9% |
| 16 | Austria | 4.8% |
| 17 | Portugal | 4.7% |
| 18 | France | 4.6% |
| 19 | Poland | 4.5% |
| 20 | Slovenia | 4.4% |
| 21 | Spain | 4.3% |
| 22 | United States of America | 4.3% |
| 23 | Lithuania | 4.1% |
| 24 | Belgium | 4.0% |
| 25 | Hungary | 3.8% |
| 26 | Italy | 3.7% |
| 27 | Slovakia | 3.3% |
| 28 | South Korea | 2.6% |
| 29 | Greece | 2.5% |
| 30 | Japan | 2.1% |
| 31 | Türkiye | 2.0% |
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Data Source
This data comes from OECD (2023).
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