Did you ever wonder how many people actually do all of the work in the United States?
We did, and we found that the answer is "less than half." More specifically, it's never been higher than 48.5%, which represents the all-time high achieved in 2000. By contrast, the all-time low of 30.3% was reached during the Great Depression in 1933.
Source Data
Our population data is available here. The data from which we extracted the number of employed individuals for each year since 1900 is available from two separate sources:
- 1900-1947: U.S. Census Labor Force (Series D 1-682), p. 126.
- 1948-Present: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. We took the average of each year's quarterly employment figures from the Current Population Survey.
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