Number of civil-service employees at 31 December, by branch: State (ministries and national public bodies), territorial (local authorities) and hospital (public hospitals, social-care establishments). All statuses: civil servants, military, contract staff, subsidised contracts. Insee, Siasp register, France excluding Mayotte.· Number of employees (people, not full-time equivalents) at 31 December, main posts, all statuses: civil servants and military, contract staff, subsidised contracts and others. France excluding Mayotte. Source: Insee, Siasp register, figures published each year (levels as published). Each vintage restates the previous year: in 2023, declarative and concept changes add about 44,000 employees (mostly local authorities), so the 2022-2023 rise shown (+106,000) overstates the real rise (+62,000, +1.1%). Subsidised contracts weigh a lot in 2013-2017 (about 170,000 to 200,000) and almost nothing after 2020 (about 26,000 in 2024).
5,878,246
2024
HospitalsLocal authoritiesState
Source: Insee· Data 2024
Headcount at 31 December, all statuses · method break in 2023
