Interactive Tables and Charts
Share of Communications Payloads by Sector, by Year, 2016-2020
Share of Communications Payloads by Orbit, 2016-2020
Successful First Stage Booster Recovery Mission Share out of Total Missions, 2017-mid-2021
Orbital Launch Attempts by Share by Sector, 2017-mid-2021
Orbital Launch Attempts by Half-Year, 2017-mid-2021
Indian Department of Space Employment, 2011-2020
A large proportion of the workforce — 76% — is made up of technical employees. In 2020, women made up 19.5% of the space workforce and 16.1% of the technical workforce.
JAXA Workforce, 2010-2020
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) employed 1,558 people in 2020, approximately the same number as in 2019. Engineers and researchers account for 70.1% of this total.
European Space Industry Employment, 2010-2020
The European space workforce included 50,388 workers in 2020, an increase of 3.3% from the 48,766 workers in 2019. The largest increases were seen in . . .
Japanese Space Industry Employment, 2009-2019
According to the Society of Japanese Aerospace Companies, the Japanese space workforce included 8,725 workers in 2019. . . More than 70% of these workers are in the space vehicle sector. While this sector decreased 1.9% from 2018 to 2019, it remains nearly 10% larger than it was five years ago.
Index Weight by Listing Country as of June 30, 2021
At the end of Q2, U.S.-listed companies comprised 77.35% of the weight of the overall index, with France in second place at 9.94%, followed by Canada at 4.98%, Japan at 3.99%, the Netherlands at 2.62%, and Italy at 1.12%. Israel is not formally included because Gilat (4.5% of the index weight) is listed on Israeli and U.S. exchanges, and the U.S. listing is used for the index due to higher trading activity.