Number of employees in the Official Statistical System at 1st January 2026
The Official Statistical System is "functionally decentralised".
It is composed by Insee and Ministerial Statistical Offices (MSOs) listed in the amended Ouvrir dans un nouvel ongletDecree 2009-250 of the 3rd of March 2009 concerning the French Official Statistics Authority (ASP).
In the following table of employees, the scope of the Official Statistics is broader than the scope of the Official Statistical Service. It includes all the statistical units of the Ministerial decentralised Offices.
Total Official Statistics
| All | Central Offices | Decentralised Offices | |
|---|---|---|---|
| INSEE* | 4 990** | 1 156*** | 3 834 |
| Ministries | 1 948 | 1 175 | 773 |
| INSEE + Ministries | 6 938 | 2 331 | 4 607 |
| of wich Official Statistical Service | 6 427 | 2 331 | 4 096 |
- (*) Employees at 31 December 2025
- (**) Not including GENES personnel
- (***) Head Office including Cefil
Detail by Domain
| Ministerial Domains | All | of wich statistical services of the central administration (including in province) | of which decentralised statistical services (including those of the Ile-de-France region) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | of which INSEE | Total | of which INSEE | Total | of which INSEE | |
| Agriculture | 378 | 96 | 116 | 50 | 262 | 46 |
| Local Authorities | 10 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| External Trade | 97 | 9 | 30 | 8 | 67 | 1 |
| Culture | 42 | 6 | 42 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Defence | 16 | 5 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Sustainable Development | 223 | 70 | 150 | 52 | 73 | 18 |
| Education | 464 | 50 | 190 | 25 | 274 | 25 |
| Higher Education, Research | 77 | 14 | 77 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| Public Finances | 19 | 7 | 19 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Civil Service | 21 | 11 | 21 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Immigration | 22 | 8 | 22 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Youth and Sports | 12 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Justice | 70 | 22 | 70 | 22 | 0 | 0 |
| Health and Solidarity | 180 | 65 | 180 | 65 | 0 | 0 |
| Internal Security | 49 | 19 | 49 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| Labour | 268 | 78 | 171 | 47 | 97 | 31 |
| Total | 1 948 | 471 | 1 175 | 350 | 773 | 121 |
| Total category A agents | 1 482 | 454 | 1 013 | 343 | 469 | 111 |
| Total category B agents | 366 | 17 | 119 | 7 | 247 | 10 |
| Total category C agents | 100 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 57 | 0 |
| Total in MSOs* | 1 437 | 396 | 1 175 | 350 | 262 | 46 |
- Nota : are noted in bold the number of MSOs employees for whom the scope of wich is defined by the decree 2009-250 of the 3rd March 2009 relating to the French Authority of Public Statistics (ASP).
- * Total headcount minus headcount in decentralised services, excluding the decentralised statistical service of Agriculture (Srise), which is a central administration.