How many government employees are there in the world?
Millions.
There are at millions of government employees, also known as civil servants, worldwide. Although there is no available data that gives an exact number of government employees worldwide, here are a few country statistics:
Country | No. of Government Employees | Source |
| United States | 21,292,000. | Feb. 2010, Bureau of Labor Statistics |
| France | 2,285,507 | Dec. 1999, French Civil Service Ministry |
| India | 18.7 million | India Watch (undated) |
| China | 5.41 million | Mar. 2002, People’â„¢s Daily |
| Indonesia | 3.74 million | 2005, Prof. Prijono Tjiptoherijanto |
| Canada | 2.7 million | 2002, Statistics Canada |
| Germany | 2 million, est. | Feb. 2010, Associated Press |
| Italy | 3.4 million | Sep. 2006, New York Times |
| Japan | Over 1 million | 2003, Wikipedia |
| Russia | 846,307 | Mar. 2009, Russian Federal State Statistics Service |
| UK | 520,000 | Nov. 2009, UK Civil Service |
| Greece | 500,000 | Mar. 2010, Reuters |
| Ukraine | 283,408 | Jan. 2010, National News Agency of Ukraine |
| Bhutan | 20,698 | June 2009, Bhutan Civil Service Commission |
| Namibia | 76,373 | Aug. 2004, The Namibian |
March 15, 2012 5:07 pm
This is not accurate at all!
In Canada, there are approximately 350,000 civil servants.
In Britain, there are approximately 6.09 million!
In the United-States, there are approximately 1.8 million.
Please review these numbers and re-post.
Thank you
June 5, 2016 9:05 pm
I cannot see the resulting # that the site stated, but your own #’s are galaxy’s off.
US: 21+ million government employees
Canada : 500,000+ employees
Great Britain: wasted to much time already researching that, so lets just use your # of 6 million.
Regardless of the great Britain stats, I’m sorry but you are not even in the ballpark.