Anyone have stats on number of designers worldwide?

[morab007]

I'm interested to know some stats on the number of graphic and web designers worldwide. I've done some searches on Google but to no avail.....

Any assistance is much appreciated.

[LeadMagnet]

I think that would be a nearly impossible statistic to gather.

[morab007]

You're probably right mate, but it's worth a try..... even if someone has some ball park figures, they'll be beneficial to me. I'm sure associations within countries have stats on the number of graphic and web designers in their region.....

[zumojuice]

I think there is like 900 members of the AGI now worldwide, so say thats the top 1% of designers over the countries covered.

[tommylogic]

You can start here U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics.

[Toon]

the real question is how many people worldwide call themselves designers?

[zumojuice]

That is a massive part of it, Toon. Of the members of this forum for example, how many of those would claim to be designers or not, and how many would not.

If we based it on those employed, That would count me out, and also freelancers. Though adding freelancers in would include people who perhaps dabble at web design in their bedrooms, aged 12 with a short run belief of going into design.

I guess you've need to make a distinction of those where at least 51% of what they earned in this tax year was from design/web design, or something, over a certain amount.

[tommylogic]

ha.. yea, we know what you dabbled with in the bathroom at age 12

Really though, I found a Wired magazine reference that reported like 13 million in 2003.