France: manufacture of motor vehicles employees 2021

The number of employees in the motor vehicles manufacturing industry in France decreased by 2,371 employees (-2.04 percent) in 2021 in comparison to the previous year. This was the first time during the observed period that the number of employees in this industry declined in France. Notably, the number of employees in this industry is continuously decreasing over the last years.
According to Eurostat employed persons are all persons aged 15 and over who performed work, even for just one hour per week, for pay, profit or family gain during the reference week or were not at work but had a job or business from which they were temporarily absent because of, for instance, illness, holidays, industrial dispute, and education or training.

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Total number of employees in the manufacture of motor vehicles industry in France from 2012 to 2021

Characteristic	Number of employees
2021b	113,591
2020	115,962
2019	116,999
2018	121,566
2017be	110,778
2016be	111,268
2015b	118,952
2014b	122,585
2013	129,631
2012	137,094

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Release date

March 2024

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France

Survey time period

2012 to 2021

Supplementary notes

b: Break in time series.
The source adds the following information: Number of employees is defined as those persons who work for an employer and who have a contract of employment and receive compensation in the form of wages, salaries, fees, gratuities, piecework pay or remuneration in kind. A worker from an employment agency is considered to be an employee of that temporary employment agency and not of the unit (customer) in which they work
Data coverage corresponds to Section C291 of CE Rev. 2.

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