# France Manufacturing employment

France Manufacturing employment was down 0.5% year on year in Q2 2026, compared with −0.6% in Q1 2026.
The level stood at 2,786.0 Thousand persons.
Over the past ten years it has ranged from −1.0% (Q4 2020) to 1.8% (Q2 2022), averaging 0.4%.

- Source agency: Eurostat (Statistical Office of the European Union)
- Makrognosis code: `FR.EMP.Q.SA.NACE-C`
- Frequency: quarterly
- Units: Thousand persons
- Coverage: 1980-01-01 to 2026-04-01 (186 observations)
- Page: https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/data/france/manufacturing-employment

## Recent data

| Period | Value | Y/Y % |
|---|---:|---:|
| Q2 2026 | 2,786.0 Thousand persons | −0.5 |
| Q1 2026 | 2,789.1 Thousand persons | −0.6 |
| Q4 2025 | 2,793.1 Thousand persons | −0.4 |
| Q3 2025 | 2,796.5 Thousand persons | −0.2 |
| Q2 2025 | 2,801.4 Thousand persons | 0.07 |
| Q1 2025 | 2,805.2 Thousand persons | 0.4 |
| Q4 2024 | 2,805.0 Thousand persons | 0.6 |
| Q3 2024 | 2,803.2 Thousand persons | 0.8 |
| Q2 2024 | 2,799.5 Thousand persons | 0.9 |
| Q1 2024 | 2,793.8 Thousand persons | 0.9 |
| Q4 2023 | 2,787.5 Thousand persons | 0.8 |
| Q3 2023 | 2,781.7 Thousand persons | 0.8 |
| Q2 2023 | 2,775.3 Thousand persons | 0.9 |
| Q1 2023 | 2,768.3 Thousand persons | 1.0 |
| Q4 2022 | 2,764.7 Thousand persons | 1.3 |
| Q3 2022 | 2,759.6 Thousand persons | 1.6 |
| Q2 2022 | 2,750.7 Thousand persons | 1.8 |
| Q1 2022 | 2,739.6 Thousand persons | 1.8 |
| Q4 2021 | 2,728.3 Thousand persons | 1.6 |
| Q3 2021 | 2,717.2 Thousand persons | 0.9 |
| Q2 2021 | 2,701.5 Thousand persons | 0.4 |
| Q1 2021 | 2,691.2 Thousand persons | −0.7 |
| Q4 2020 | 2,684.6 Thousand persons | −1.0 |
| Q3 2020 | 2,692.6 Thousand persons | −0.7 |

## API

```
curl -H "X-API-Key: $MAKROGNOSIS_KEY" \
  "https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/v1/series/FR.EMP.Q.SA.NACE-C"

# Python
import requests
r = requests.get("https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/v1/series/FR.EMP.Q.SA.NACE-C",
                 headers={"X-API-Key": KEY})
obs = r.json()["observations"]
```