Lightcast Expands Global Labor Data Coverage To More Than 40 Countries, Delivering Workforce Insights for Strategic Planning in Uncertain Times

Lightcast Adds Millions of New Profiles and Deepens Coverage Across China, Japan, and South Korea

MOSCOW, Idaho, April 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Lightcast, the trusted provider of global labor market data, analytics, and expert guidance, today announced a massive expansion of its global workforce data, notably increasing its profile coverage by 44 percent and expanding its data coverage across more than 40 countries, which combined represent 88 percent of the global GDP. These deeper, broader updates provide timely labor supply and demand intelligence, as well as talent insights into millions of workers in these vital markets. 

As geopolitical shifts create uncertainty around the world, leaders need more data to make timely decisions as they face unprecedented challenges in strategic and workforce planning. The need for granular, accurate, and more frequent labor market intelligence has never been more critical to making informed choices regarding talent, operations, and growth.

Lightcast's latest data enrichments deliver significant enhancement in both breadth and depth. Global profile coverage growth includes significant additions in key regions such as Canada (an increase of 27 percent), the United Kingdom (a rise of 6 percent), and the United States (an increase of 3.5 percent). Beyond broader geographic coverage, the dataset includes years of experience, tenure at specific companies, and internal transitions. These additions enable customers to unlock nuanced workforce dynamics across the globe.

"As someone who's been deeply involved in career coaching, HR, talent acquisition and talent analytics strategy, I can't overstate how valuable this expanded dataset from Lightcast will be for the market at large," said Erika Oliver, Managing Director at NewtonHaus. "This enormous Asia market expansion, coupled with the 44 percent growth in global profiles, makes Lightcast a clear global leader in labor market intelligence, which fuels data-driven skills-based hiring and workforce planning."

Global Depth, Breadth, Accuracy, Frequency, and Transparency

Lightcast possesses unparalleled heritage and scale in labor market data collection, processing, and classification. With an ethos of global data quality, transparency, and trust, Lightcast employs a wide range of data sources, sophisticated analytical tools, patent-pending technology, and human expertise, including: 

• Proprietary AI Models – Leveraging generative AI models fine-tuned on more than two decades of Lightcast's labor market data and experience in the domain, its patent-pending AI technology delivers culturally relevant labor market translations for superior linguistic accuracy compared to standard AI-based transliterations. This accuracy is fundamental and ensures finely-tuned classification.
• Linguistic Specialists – A dedicated team of linguistics specialists focused on non-English languages ensures that Lightcast's global products are comprehensive and adhere to universal standards of accuracy and relevance. These specialists perform critical tasks such as data cleaning, validation, and integration, providing the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of data across languages and cultures. This meticulous approach ensures customers can make clear, standardized comparisons across different countries, regions, and metros.

"This unprecedented accuracy is not only essential for giving our customers the granularity and depth of data they need to make global talent decisions, but it also dramatically accelerates our data expansion to new languages," said SVP of Data Science at Lightcast, Tyson Silver. "Now, we can leverage our industry-leading Occupation Taxonomy against non-English data without cultural nuances and data quality literally being lost in translation."

The newly expanded and enriched global data from Lightcast is available now for Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States. Existing global data customers can access this data immediately. New customers can learn more or get started at www.lightcast.io.

About Lightcast

Lightcast provides trusted global labor market data, analytics, and expert guidance that empowers communities, corporations, and learning providers to make informed decisions and navigate the increasingly complex world of work. With a database of more than 2.5 billion job postings and career profiles, our team provides best-in-class customer service with robust data, clear analysis, and expert guidance on skills, jobs, and opportunities. Lightcast is active in more than 30 countries and has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, New Zealand, and India. The company is backed by global private equity leader KKR. For more, visit lightcast.io.

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