How many Engineers worldwide
How many Engineers worldwide
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I found the Bureau of Labor Statistics data for the number of engineers in the U.S. - 1,512,000 in 2006. I need to find out how many there are world wide, but cannot for the life of me find that statistic in any form. Ideas? Thanks.





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try to validate your percentage figure by looking at other areas (Europe, India, Japan, China etc) and carrying out the same calculation
As long as you state your assumptions for the figure you eventually arrive at it's as valid as anybody else's finger in the air...
regards HM
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I wonder what the ratio of lawyers to engineers is in each country and what that might tell us.....
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RE: How many Engineers worldwide
As to the numbers, I'd suggest at least trying to find numbers for the countries with the largest population as these are most likely to skew the answer, so try and find info for India & China.
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from this article
http://www.issues.org/23.3/wadhwa.html
Extrapolating in both directions, and summing under the curves, I get about 1,200,000 engineers in the USA, 800,000 in China, and 500,000 in India. USA+China+India gives 41% of the world population according to google, so I'd estimate 6,000,000 engineers worldwide.
My earlier figure of 17,000,000 was based on your figure for engineers in the US, scaled up by population (world/us), and divided by two.
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I would guesstimate that the distribution of engineers within the population of Europe (at least the EU) would be on a similar scale to that of the US, i.e. higher than for China or India, which could bump up the figure slightly.
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I'd try and get figures for the largest nations, obviously India & China being the largest but I'd probably want figures for Brazil & Russia etc.
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1.5million out of 300million is a damn sight higher proportion than 173k out of 80million.
(Unless the relative definitions ARE out of whack).