Number of employees in the Official Statistical System at 1st January 2025

INSEE and official statistics
Dernière mise à jour le : 24/06/2025

The Official Statistical System is "functionally decentralised".

It is composed by Insee and Ministerial Statistical Offices (MSOs) listed in the amended Decree 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* 5 011** 1 163*** 3 848
Ministries 1 953 1 175 778
INSEE + Ministries 6 964 2 338 4 626
of wich Official Statistical Service 6 450 2 338 4 112
  • (*) Employees at 31 December 2024
  • (**) 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 381 104 117 50 264 54
Local Authorities 10 6 10 6 0 0
External Trade 97 9 31 8 66 1
Culture 42 7 42 7 0 0
Defence 19 6 19 6 0 0
Energy, Housing, Transport and the Environment 227 70 154 52 73 18
Education 468 51 191 26 277 25
Higher Education, Research 74 13 74 13 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 11 5 11 5 0 0
Justice 67 20 67 20 0 0
Health and Solidarity 184 64 184 64 0 0
Internal Security 49 19 49 19 0 0
Labour 262 73 164 44 98 29
Total 1 953 473 1 175 346 778 127
Total category A agents 1 455 451 998 339 457 112
Total category B agents 378 22 126 7 252 15
Total category C agents 120 0 51 0 69 0
Total in MSOs* 1 439 400 1 175 346 264 54
  • 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.