Editing Software engineering demographics (section)

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[[Software engineers]] make up a significant portion of the [[global workforce]]. As of 2022, there are an estimated '''26.9 million''' professional software engineers worldwide, up from '''21 million''' in 2016.<ref name="2022-numbers">{{cite web |last1=Labs |first1=Qubit |title=How Many Programmers are there in the World and in the US? [2023] |url=https://qubit-labs.com/how-many-programmers-in-the-world/ |website=Qubit Labs |access-date=7 February 2023 |date=29 November 2022}}</ref><ref name="SO2016">{{cite web|url=http://evansdata.com/reports/viewRelease.php?reportID=9|title=Global Developer Population and Demographic Study 2016 V2|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=[[Evans Data Corporation]]|accessdate=19 January 2017}}</ref>