France total employment: manufacture of transport equipment
France total employment: manufacture of transport equipment stood at 210.5 in 2025, according to INSEE – Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (BDM). It is one of the indicators in the Annual national accounts table (Value · Annual), with a complete series running from 1949 to 2025. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the Annual national accounts table
| Indicator | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total employment (full-time equivalents) | |||||||||||
| Manufacture of transport equipment | 210.5 | 210.8 | 207.7 | 201.7 | 206.5 | 212.6 | 219 | 216.2 | 213.7 | 211.5 | |
| Manufacture of other industrial products | 1,552.7 | 1,561.1 | 1,553.9 | 1,536.4 | 1,504.1 | 1,494.7 | 1,505.1 | 1,464.6 | 1,461.4 | 1,474.1 |
Understanding france total employment: manufacture of transport equipment
This metric calculates total labor input in full-time equivalents for industrial units manufacturing motor vehicles, trailers, rail locomotives, aircraft, spacecraft, and marine vessels. The aggregation captures assembly plant workers, specialized design engineers, component fabricators, and logistical support teams tied directly to vehicle construction. This series excludes upstream material suppliers and downstream retail distribution networks, isolating the transport manufacturing process. Full-time equivalent conversion standardizes cyclical production runs and plant shutdowns into a stable annual workforce measure.
Evaluating this time series requires attention to major industrial restructuring events, plant relocations, and complex subcontracting shifts that can cause step changes in the data. Analysts should compare these figures with transport equipment production indices to gauge efficiency trends. Year-on-year comparisons are particularly important to bypass seasonal holiday shutdowns common in heavy industrial assembly plants.
Frequently asked questions
- Does this transport manufacturing measure include automotive vehicle repair shops?
- No, repair and maintenance of motor vehicles belong to the distributive trades and service sector, separate from original equipment manufacturing.
- How are aerospace and automotive industries combined in this branch?
- They are grouped together under transport equipment due to shared engineering supply chains and heavy industrial assembly characteristics.
- Why are full-time equivalents preferred over raw headcounts in transport manufacturing?
- Firms frequently adjust working hours and utilize temporary contracts to match production schedules, making full-time equivalents a more accurate measure of labor volume.