<s>
Software	B-General_Concept
engineers	I-General_Concept
form	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
workforce	O
around	O
the	O
world	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
are	O
an	O
estimated	O
26.9	O
million	O
professional	O
software	B-General_Concept
engineers	I-General_Concept
in	O
the	O
world	O
as	O
of	O
2022	O
,	O
up	O
from	O
21	O
million	O
in	O
2016	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
are	O
an	O
estimated	O
4.4	O
million	O
professional	O
software	B-General_Concept
engineers	I-General_Concept
in	O
the	O
US	O
,	O
up	O
from	O
an	O
estimated	O
3.87	O
million	O
out	O
of	O
a	O
total	O
employed	O
workforce	O
of	O
152	O
million	O
(	O
2.54	O
%	O
)	O
in	O
2016	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Based	O
on	O
data	O
from	O
the	O
U.S.	O
Bureau	O
of	O
Labor	O
Statistics	O
from	O
2002	O
,	O
about	O
612,000	O
software	B-General_Concept
engineers	I-General_Concept
worked	O
in	O
the	O
U.S.	O
about	O
one	O
out	O
of	O
every	O
200	O
workers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
were	O
55%	O
to	O
60%	O
as	O
many	O
software	B-General_Concept
engineers	I-General_Concept
as	O
all	O
traditional	O
engineers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Software	B-General_Concept
engineering	I-General_Concept
had	O
612,000	O
practitioners	O
;	O
264,790	O
managers	O
,	O
16,495	O
educators	O
,	O
and	O
457,320	O
programmers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
following	O
two	O
tables	O
compare	O
the	O
number	O
of	O
software	B-General_Concept
engineers	I-General_Concept
(	O
611,900	O
in	O
2002	O
)	O
,	O
versus	O
the	O
number	O
of	O
traditional	O
engineers(1,157,020 in 2002 )	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
are	O
another	O
1,500,000	O
people	O
in	O
system	O
analysis	O
,	O
system	O
administration	O
,	O
and	O
computer	O
support	O
,	O
many	O
of	O
whom	O
might	O
be	O
called	O
software	B-General_Concept
engineers	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Many	O
systems	O
analysts	O
manage	O
software	O
development	O
teams	O
and	O
analysis	O
is	O
an	O
important	O
software	B-General_Concept
engineering	I-General_Concept
role	O
,	O
so	O
many	O
of	O
them	O
might	O
be	O
considered	O
software	B-General_Concept
engineers	I-General_Concept
in	O
the	O
near	O
future	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
means	O
that	O
the	O
number	O
of	O
software	B-General_Concept
engineers	I-General_Concept
may	O
actually	O
be	O
much	O
higher	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Note	O
also	O
that	O
the	O
number	O
of	O
software	B-General_Concept
engineers	I-General_Concept
declined	O
by	O
5%	O
to	O
10%	O
from	O
2000	O
to	O
2002	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Until	O
now	O
,	O
computer	O
science	O
has	O
been	O
the	O
main	O
degree	O
to	O
acquire	O
,	O
whether	O
for	O
making	O
software	O
systems	O
(	O
software	B-General_Concept
engineering	I-General_Concept
)	O
or	O
studying	O
the	O
theoretical	O
and	O
mathematical	O
facts	O
of	O
software	O
systems	O
(	O
computer	O
science	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
estimated	O
that	O
similarly	O
,	O
of	O
computer	O
science	O
educators	O
emphasize	O
the	O
practical	O
(	O
software	B-General_Concept
engineering	I-General_Concept
)	O
(	O
16,495	O
)	O
and	O
of	O
computer	O
science	O
educators	O
emphasize	O
the	O
theoretical	O
(	O
computer	O
science	O
)	O
(	O
16,495	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
means	O
that	O
software	B-General_Concept
engineering	I-General_Concept
education	O
is	O
56%	O
the	O
size	O
of	O
traditional	O
engineering	O
education	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Computer	O
science	O
is	O
larger	O
than	O
software	B-General_Concept
engineering	I-General_Concept
,	O
and	O
larger	O
than	O
physics	O
and	O
chemistry	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Software	B-General_Concept
engineers	I-General_Concept
are	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
much	O
larger	O
software	O
,	O
hardware	O
,	O
application	O
,	O
and	O
operations	O
community	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2000	O
in	O
the	O
U.S.	O
,	O
there	O
were	O
about	O
680,000	O
software	B-General_Concept
engineers	I-General_Concept
and	O
about	O
10,000,000	O
IT	O
workers	O
.	O
</s>
