# Software engineering demographics

> Software engineers make up a significant portion of the global workforce. As of 2022, there are an estimated 26.9 million professional software engineers worldwide, up from 21 million in 2016. By country United States In 2023, there were an estimated 1.6 million professional software developers in North America. There are 166 million people employed in […]

Software engineers make up a significant portion of the global workforce. As of 2022, there are an estimated **26.9 million** professional software engineers worldwide, up from **21 million** in 2016.

## By country

### United States

In 2023, there were an estimated 1.6 million  professional software developers in North America. There are 166 million people  employed in the US workforce, making software developers 0.96% of the total workforce.

#### Summary

#### Software engineers vs. traditional engineers

The following two tables compare the number of software engineers (611,900 in 2002) versus the number of traditional engineers (1,157,020 in 2002).

There are another 1,500,000 people in system analysis, system administration, and computer support, many of whom might be called software engineers. Many systems analysts manage software development teams, and as analysis is an important software engineering role, many of them may be considered software

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*Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_demographics)*

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