IT:BD:Market

For the United States, there are 1,336,300 programmers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The United Kingdom has 333,000 “software professionals,” according to the Office for National Statistics.

In Canada there are 387,000 people working in IT according to Statistics Canada.

Japan has 1,016,929 people working in “information services” according to Official Statistics of Japan

In 2005, there were about 680,000 enterprises in the EU27 in ICT manufacturing and service industries, with 5.9 million people employed…

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