ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Employment by status of employment in United States of America

United States of America: ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Employment by status of employment was 23,929 1000 No in 2025. ▼ Falling

Latest (2025)
23,929 1000 No
Change on year
up 2.6%
Rank
1st
of 2 groups
All-time high
24,711 1000 No
in 2005
All-time low
21,493 1000 No
in 2020
Years of data
21
2005–2025

ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Employment by status of employment in United States of America, 2005–2025

05.0k10.0k15.0k20.0k25.0k2005201520252005: 24.7k 1000 No2006: 24.6k 1000 No2007: 24.7k 1000 No2008: 24.5k 1000 No2009: 23.7k 1000 No2010: 23.6k 1000 No2011: 23.4k 1000 No2012: 23.4k 1000 No2013: 23.2k 1000 No2014: 23.5k 1000 No2015: 22.8k 1000 No2016: 22.5k 1000 No2017: 22.6k 1000 No2018: 22.8k 1000 No2019: 22.8k 1000 No2020: 21.5k 1000 No2021: 21.8k 1000 No2022: 22.4k 1000 No2023: 22.8k 1000 No2024: 23.3k 1000 No2025: 23.9k 1000 No

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 No.

Analysis

In 2025, ilostat - labour force survey — employment by status of employment in United States of America stood at 23,929 1000 No.

That represents a change of up 2.6% on the previous year and up 5.1% over ten years.

Over the whole period, ilostat - labour force survey — employment by status of employment in United States of America peaked at 24,711 1000 No in 2005 and was at its lowest, 21,493 1000 No, in 2020.

The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 21 years of available data.

ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Employment by status of employment in United States of America, year by year

Annual values for ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Employment by status of employment, employees, rural areas — Value in United States of America, 2005 to 2025.
Year 1000 No Change
2005 24,711 1000 No
2006 24,603 1000 No -0.4%
2007 24,707 1000 No +0.4%
2008 24,456 1000 No -1.0%
2009 23,707 1000 No -3.1%
2010 23,617 1000 No -0.4%
2011 23,422 1000 No -0.8%
2012 23,430 1000 No +0.0%
2013 23,205 1000 No -1.0%
2014 23,463 1000 No +1.1%
2015 22,767 1000 No -3.0%
2016 22,466 1000 No -1.3%
2017 22,552 1000 No +0.4%
2018 22,801 1000 No +1.1%
2019 22,800 1000 No -0.0%
2020 21,493 1000 No -5.7%
2021 21,755 1000 No +1.2%
2022 22,393 1000 No +2.9%
2023 22,788 1000 No +1.8%
2024 23,329 1000 No +2.4%
2025 23,929 1000 No +2.6%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
2000s 24,437 1000 No 23,707 1000 No 24,711 1000 No 5
2010s 23,052 1000 No 22,466 1000 No 23,617 1000 No 10
2020s 22,615 1000 No 21,493 1000 No 23,929 1000 No 6

Countries ranked near United States of America

  1. 1 India 52,264 1000 No compare
  2. 1 Viet Nam 15,054 1000 No compare
  3. 2 Côte d'Ivoire 923.83 1000 No compare
  4. 2 Indonesia 21,896 1000 No compare
  5. 2 Türkiye 3,082 1000 No compare
  6. 3 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 319.46 1000 No compare
  7. 3 Pakistan 19,426 1000 No compare
  8. 4 Bangladesh 15,661 1000 No compare
  9. 4 Republic of Moldova 304.99 1000 No compare

See the full ranking of 78 places →

More economy & growth data for United States of America

All data for United States of America →

Frequently asked questions

What is ilostat - labour force survey — employment by status of employment in United States of America?
Ilostat - labour force survey — employment by status of employment in United States of America was 23,929 1000 No in 2025, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest ilostat - labour force survey — employment by status of employment recorded in United States of America?
The highest recorded value was 24,711 1000 No in 2005.
What is the lowest ilostat - labour force survey — employment by status of employment recorded in United States of America?
The lowest recorded value was 21,493 1000 No in 2020.
How does United States of America rank for ilostat - labour force survey — employment by status of employment?
United States of America ranks 1st out of 2 groups with data for 2025.
Is ilostat - labour force survey — employment by status of employment rising or falling in United States of America?
Over the last ten years it is up 5.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this United States of America data come from?
The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Employment by status of employment, employees, rural areas — Value. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

Download this data

CSV · JSON — 21 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO).

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Employment by status of employment in United States of America. Statizoid, drawing on Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 18 September 2026, from https://economy.statizoid.com/stat/ilostat-labour-force-survey-employment-by-status-of-employment-employees-rural-areas-value/united-states-of-america/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://economy.statizoid.com/stat/ilostat-labour-force-survey-employment-by-status-of-employment-employees-rural-areas-value/united-states-of-america/">ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Employment by status of employment in United States of America</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Employment by status of employment, employees, rural areas — Value
Unit
1000 No
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
78 places, 1,462 data points, 1987–2025
Last refreshed

The FAOSTAT Employment indicators domain focuses on indicators related to employment in agrifood systems and rural areas. The update is performed yearly, using data from the International Labour Organization (ILO) database that contains a rich set of indicators from a wide range of topics related to labour statistics. The indicators published in FAOSTAT are derived from the labour force statistics (LFS) and rural and urban labour markets (RURURB) databases of the ILOSTAT database.