Workforce
2016 – NASA Workforce
Like the industry as a whole, NASA’s workforce has experienced steady decreases in size. From the start of FY 1993, the earliest date for which data is available in NASA’s…
2016 – U.S. Space Industry Employment
In 2015, the U.S. civilian space sector included 221,367 individuals. Employment is essentially unchanged from 2014, when 221,585 individuals worked in this area. Longer-term trends, however, show that the space…
2016 – U.S. Space Workforce
The U.S. space workforce includes individuals that work in the commercial, civil, and national security sectors. The U.S. space workforce has seen contraction across all of these sectors in recent…
2015 – Workforce
The global space industry relies on a highly qualified workforce. Understanding the trends in this workforce, including changes in size and demographics, provides insight into the overall health of the...…
2015 – Other Space Employment
The exhibit below provides a snapshot of workforce sizes in space agencies around the world, based on publicly available information from a variety of sources. Care should be... The exhibit…
2016 – Indian Space Employment
In India, a significant amount of space activity takes place within the Department of Space, which includes the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and its government-owned commercial... [exhibit:india-space-workforce] [/exhibit]In India,…
* 2015 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Employment
[exhibit:jaxa-employ]?end=2015[/exhibit] The workforce of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) remained steady, adding eight employees for an increase of approximately 0.5%. With slight growth in the past two years, the…
2015 – Japanese Space Industry Employment
The Japanese space workforce increased by 3.2% from 2013 to 2014, reaching 8,232 workers. This is nearly 30% larger than the size of the space workforce five years prior, in…
2015 – European Space Industry Employment
Data on the European space workforce is collected annually via surveys by Eurospace, an association of the European space manufacturing industry. The survey focuses on design, development, and... Data on…
2016 – U.S. Army Space Workforce Update
The Army Space Workforce, referred to as the Space Cadre, reached 4,581 billets in FY 2017, an increase of more than a third from FY 2016. Although they account for…