What does the France budget deficit and public spending dataset show?

This dataset provides the quarterly non-financial accounts of the French general government, detailing total expenditure, revenue, taxes, social benefits, and the resulting net lending or net borrowing (budget deficit or surplus).

How far back do the French government account series go?

The quarterly general government accounts for France are available starting from 1949.

Are the French public finance figures seasonally adjusted?

Yes, the quarterly series for French government expenditure, revenue, and net borrowing are seasonally adjusted (SA) and working-day adjusted (WDA).

What types of government revenue are tracked in this France dataset?

The dataset tracks various revenue sources for France, including income taxes, taxes on production and labor, social contributions, customs duties, and dividends.

France budget deficit and public spending

Name: France budget deficit and public spending
Creator: INSEE – Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (BDM)
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

France budget deficit, public spending, and revenue quarterly accounts from INSEE.

Source: INSEE – Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (BDM)Last updated: Sep 14, 2026, 14:00Curated by Bui Thanh PhucAbout this data ↓

Indicator	Q2-2026	Q1-2026	Q4-2025	Q3-2025	Q2-2025	Q1-2025	Q4-2024	Q3-2024	Q2-2024	Q1-2024	Q4-2023	Q3-2023	Q2-2023
Wage compensations from the general government - Values at current prices - SA series	93,958	93,442	92,955	92,573	92,332	92,152	91,686	91,309	90,551	89,492	89,379	86,831	85,203
Payroll from general government - Values at current prices - SA series	62,489	62,231	61,993	61,843	61,831	61,890	61,908	61,819	61,336	60,523	60,904	58,842	57,581
Employers' social contributions from general government - Values at current prices - SA series	18,261	18,041	17,829	17,624	17,412	17,183	16,927	16,655	16,413	16,216	16,351	15,914	15,606
Imputed contributions from general government - Values at current prices - SA series	13,208	13,171	13,134	13,106	13,088	13,079	12,851	12,835	12,803	12,754	12,124	12,074	12,016
Taxes on production of general government - Values at current prices - SA series	3,578	3,552	3,495	3,492	3,477	3,467	3,461	3,437	3,419	3,385	3,345	3,258	3,216
Taxes on production to the general government - Values at current prices - SA series	33,676	34,146	33,077	33,228	33,125	33,372	32,966	32,386	32,333	32,262	32,962	31,432	31,081
Taxes on labor from the general government - Values at current prices - SA series	3,045	3,002	2,970	2,962	2,949	2,929	2,932	2,926	2,912	2,876	2,840	2,780	2,742
Taxes on labor to general government - Values at current prices - SA series	15,304	15,294	15,062	15,091	15,027	14,896	14,700	14,564	14,551	14,317	13,994	13,724	13,657
Other taxes on production from general government - Values at current prices - SA series	533	550	525	530	528	538	529	511	507	509	505	478	474
Other taxes on production to general government - Values at current prices - SA series	18,372	18,851	18,015	18,137	18,097	18,475	18,266	17,822	17,783	17,945	18,968	17,708	17,424
Other subsidies on production to general government - Values at current prices - SA series	-213	-213	-213	-216	-222	-232	-245	-253	-255	-253	-245	-241	-241
Other subsidies on production from general government - Values at current prices - SA series	-10,664	-10,756	-10,898	-10,897	-10,952	-10,663	-10,568	-10,244	-9,814	-9,589	-9,830	-9,370	-9,459
Interest from general government - Values at current prices - SA series	18,916	18,191	17,547	16,483	16,110	15,582	15,890	15,378	14,661	14,201	13,881	12,982	13,504
Interest to general government - Values at current prices - SA series	960	901	838	812	860	963	1,137	1,347	1,377	1,519	1,536	1,436	1,261
Dividends to general government - Values at current prices - SA series	3,121	2,047	2,257	2,737	2,300	2,133	2,349	1,621	1,474	1,399	2,000	1,426	1,485
Property income granted to insurance policy holders, to general government - Values at current prices - SA series	778	807	848	881	905	921	927	913	878	821	743	681	635
Land and subsoil rents from general government - Values at current prices - SA series	22	22	22	22	22	22	21	21	21	21	41	41	41
Land and subsoil rents to general government - Values at current prices - SA series	1,584	1,572	1,556	1,548	1,550	1,561	1,581	1,575	1,544	1,488	1,406	1,342	1,298
Income taxes from general government - Values at current prices - SA series	37	38	38	39	40	41	42	43	43	43	43	40	37
Income taxes to the general government - Values at current prices - SA series	94,110	94,245	102,365	93,461	92,737	94,786	88,224	89,260	91,273	90,066	86,578	86,694	88,921
Other current taxes to general government - Values at current prices - SA series	1,766	1,700	1,624	1,667	1,624	1,658	1,800	1,669	1,686	1,705	1,901	1,724	1,387
Employers' social contributions to general government - Values at current prices - SA series	78,948	78,529	77,238	76,302	76,046	75,300	74,263	73,999	73,239	72,561	71,681	70,906	69,871
Imputed contributions to general government - Values at current prices - SA series	13,208	13,171	13,134	13,106	13,088	13,079	12,851	12,835	12,803	12,754	12,124	12,074	12,016
Actual social contributions paid by households to general government - Values at current prices - SA series	38,074	37,361	35,604	35,406	35,228	35,204	34,976	34,733	34,326	34,292	33,790	33,340	33,079
Social benefits in cash - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	147,446	146,949	146,215	145,480	145,011	144,175	142,662	141,724	140,224	139,075	134,564	132,791	131,898
Social security benefits in cash from general government - Values at current prices - SA series	117,830	117,274	116,759	116,113	115,732	114,982	113,673	112,923	111,977	111,020	107,269	105,671	104,808
Other social insurance benefit from general government - Values at current prices - SA series	15,308	15,274	15,240	15,209	15,182	15,158	14,908	14,875	14,830	14,773	14,152	14,079	14,003
Social assistance benefits in cash from general government - Values at current prices - SA series	14,307	14,401	14,216	14,157	14,097	14,035	14,081	13,927	13,417	13,282	13,143	13,040	13,087
Net non-life insurance premiums from general government - Values at current prices - SA series	390	390	390	388	382	374	362	353	345	340	336	331	324
Non-life insurance claims to general government - Values at current prices - SA series	427	414	393	380	374	375	383	386	383	375	362	351	342
Current transfers between general government entities from general government - Values at current prices - SA series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Current transfers between general government entities to general government - Values at current prices - SA series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
International cooperation from general government - Values at current prices - SA series	2,508	2,522	2,544	2,556	2,559	2,554	2,539	2,547	2,576	2,627	2,700	2,733	2,724
International cooperation to general government - Values at current prices - SA series	895	927	960	996	1,035	1,077	1,123	1,129	1,096	1,023	999	949	914
Miscellaneous current transfers from general government - Values at current prices - SA series	15,046	14,952	14,847	14,786	14,770	14,799	14,872	14,893	14,862	14,780	14,646	14,515	14,387
Miscellaneous current transfers to general government - Values at current prices - SA series	4,193	4,312	4,460	4,498	4,427	4,247	3,958	3,741	3,597	3,524	3,525	3,547	3,590
Own resources of the EU from general government - Values at current prices - SA series	5,959	5,932	5,895	5,821	5,709	5,559	5,571	5,516	5,593	5,602	4,749	6,209	6,401
Capital taxes to general government - Values at current prices - SA series	5,372	5,542	5,551	5,423	5,243	5,463	5,448	5,542	5,355	5,126	5,586	5,200	5,449
Investment grants payable from general government - Values at current prices - SA series	-8,811	-8,706	-8,554	-8,472	-8,460	-8,518	-8,646	-8,703	-8,690	-8,605	-8,450	-8,287	-8,116
Investment grants to general government - Values at current prices - SA series	1,598	1,568	1,539	1,529	1,538	1,566	1,614	1,692	1,802	1,944	2,116	2,264	2,385
Other capital transfers payable from general government - Values at current prices - SA series	-2,066	-2,009	-1,931	-1,874	-1,840	-1,828	-1,837	-1,865	-1,910	-1,974	-2,055	-2,124	-2,180
Other capital transfers to general government - Values at current prices - SA series	-487	-480	-470	-434	-371	-283	-168	-109	-104	-155	-261	-334	-374
Net acquisitions of non-produced assets of general government - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	697	703	711	725	744	768	798	799	773	719	636	582	557
Value added of general government - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	126,480	125,605	124,795	124,187	123,732	123,355	122,562	122,041	121,093	119,881	119,544	116,812	115,072
Gross operating surplus of general government - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	29,157	28,824	28,557	28,338	28,145	27,967	27,661	27,548	27,377	27,257	27,064	26,964	26,894
Gross disposable income of the general government - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	183,017	181,723	186,802	178,818	177,151	178,776	169,700	170,004	172,881	170,870	167,983	166,204	166,156
Adjusted disposable income of general government - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	63,720	63,358	69,068	61,387	60,575	62,942	54,764	55,661	59,356	58,022	55,454	55,571	57,142
General government savings - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	-477	-321	5,584	-1,781	-2,275	-43	-8,203	-6,902	-3,137	-4,046	-6,547	-5,156	-2,724
Net lending (+) or net borrowing (-) of general government - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	-39,075	-38,734	-33,007	-40,213	-40,600	-37,771	-45,469	-43,918	-39,902	-39,887	-41,094	-39,266	-36,087
VAT to general government - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	53,154	52,456	52,490	52,355	52,076	52,228	52,002	52,008	51,916	51,884	51,777	51,884	51,629
Customs duty to general government - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	178	178	178	178	179	179	179	178	176	174	170	168	167
Taxes on products to the general government - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	32,874	32,996	32,747	32,557	32,223	30,784	29,826	29,467	29,613	28,928	27,610	27,872	28,281
Subsidies on products to general government - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	-3,183	-3,191	-3,207	-3,240	-3,293	-3,366	-4,040	-4,136	-4,131	-4,946	-7,522	-7,643	-7,987
Social transfers in kind of non-market products from general government - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	70,568	70,112	69,687	69,343	69,096	68,882	68,534	68,269	67,748	67,203	67,321	65,817	64,631
Social transfers in kind of market products from general government - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	48,730	48,252	48,047	48,088	47,480	46,953	46,402	46,074	45,777	45,646	45,208	44,816	44,384
Production of general the government entities - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	168,210	167,148	165,963	165,125	164,405	164,072	163,174	162,625	161,845	160,343	159,794	156,656	154,226
Intermediate consumption of general government - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	41,730	41,543	41,168	40,938	40,673	40,717	40,611	40,583	40,752	40,462	40,250	39,844	39,153
Gross fixed capital formation of general government - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	33,269	33,262	33,491	33,235	32,985	32,650	32,217	32,203	32,000	31,178	30,744	30,218	29,894
Other expenditure - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	144,772	143,767	143,041	142,669	141,705	140,832	139,976	139,304	138,504	137,722	136,409	135,722	134,047
Other income - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	43,550	42,452	42,179	42,595	42,186	41,999	41,967	41,561	41,110	40,368	40,062	38,780	38,153
Operating surplus, net of CFC - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	54	97	71	33	-9	-184	-250	-123	-109	-109	-263	-85	6
Subsidies paid by general government - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	13,846	13,947	14,105	14,137	14,245	14,028	14,607	14,380	13,945	14,535	17,353	17,014	17,446
Social contributions - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	130,230	129,061	125,976	124,814	124,362	123,584	122,090	121,567	120,367	119,607	117,595	116,321	114,966
Taxes - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	221,131	221,263	228,033	218,870	217,206	218,468	210,444	210,511	212,352	210,143	206,585	204,974	206,916
Acquisitions of non-financial assets - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	34,206	34,328	34,726	34,604	34,435	34,129	33,676	33,574	33,217	32,177	31,483	30,828	30,527
Acquisitions less disposals of valuables - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total general government expenditure - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	437,249	434,779	432,487	429,761	427,554	424,908	422,896	420,416	416,617	413,014	408,560	402,729	399,624
Total general government revenue - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series	398,174	396,045	399,480	389,548	386,955	387,137	377,427	376,497	376,715	373,127	367,466	363,463	363,537
Paid employment of general government (individuals) - Employees in thousands - SA series	6,436.9	6,433	6,437.3	6,435.5	6,424.6	6,420.1	6,424.9	6,425.7	6,412.9	6,399.6	6,367.7	6,340.9	6,335
Paid employment of general government(full-time equivalent) - Employees in thousands - SA series	6,208.3	6,204.3	6,207.9	6,206.3	6,196.6	6,193.6	6,200.2	6,201.1	6,187.1	6,170.9	6,134.9	6,108.3	6,106

Latest reading

The latest reading is −39,075 EUR million, for Q2 2026. That is −341 EUR million from Q1 2026 and +1,525 EUR million from a year earlier. The series on this page is quarterly and runs from Q1 1949 to Q2 2026.

Latest: −39,075 EUR million; Q2 2026
vs previous period: −341 EUR million; Q1 2026
vs a year earlier: +1,525 EUR million

About this data

France budget deficit, public spending, and revenue quarterly accounts from INSEE. This dataset details the non-financial accounts of French general government, including taxes on production, income taxes, social contributions, and interest. It also tracks government expenditure, social benefits in cash, intermediate consumption, and net lending or borrowing. The quarterly series are seasonally and working-day adjusted, presented in millions of euros, and date back to 1949.

Frequently asked questions

What does the France budget deficit and public spending dataset show?: This dataset provides the quarterly non-financial accounts of the French general government, detailing total expenditure, revenue, taxes, social benefits, and the resulting net lending or net borrowing (budget deficit or surplus).
How far back do the French government account series go?: The quarterly general government accounts for France are available starting from 1949.
Are the French public finance figures seasonally adjusted?: Yes, the quarterly series for French government expenditure, revenue, and net borrowing are seasonally adjusted (SA) and working-day adjusted (WDA).
What types of government revenue are tracked in this France dataset?: The dataset tracks various revenue sources for France, including income taxes, taxes on production and labor, social contributions, customs duties, and dividends.