Publications

There were more than 2.5 million farmers in France in 1955, but today there are only 496,000 left, according to the 2020 Agricultural Census. As a corollary to this trend, the number of farms in mainland France is falling, to around 389,000 in 2020 – almost 800,000 fewer than in 1980. Every year sin...

Artificial intelligence (AI), which aims to reproduce human intelligence by using computers and mathematics, emerged in the 1950s, influenced in particular by the work of Alan Turing. According to the OECD, AI start-ups attracted nearly 12% of global private equity in the first half of 2018, up from...

In the member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), about 13% of children and adolescents have at least one mental disorder, i.e. a condition that affects mental health and can take many different forms and expressions. Although the lack of data on the Frenc...

The 2023 Annual Public Report, published today, in figures: 572 pages (-18.52 % compared to 2022), including 186 pages of responses from administrations 26 audit recommendations The result of the work of the seven chambers of the Court, fifteen regional Chambers of - Accounts (CRCs), eight inte...

The flash audit presented today provides an insight into the coordination and conditions for supporting and taking in Ukrainian refugees in the wake of the war that broke out in the country on 24 February 2022. Between the start of the conflict and September 2022, more than 7.1 million Ukrainian nat...

The Court of Accounts has carried out an assessment of the support measures deployed by the State and its operators in 2020 and 2021 to help tourism businesses cope with the crisis. These measures were presented to the sector's stakeholders at the interministerial committees on tourism of 14 May 202...

In France, the number of higher education graduates in the 25-34 age group is good (49.4% compared to an average of 45.6% for all OECD countries). However, if we look at the geographical distribution of this graduation rate, we can see that there are still territorial inequalities with regard to acc...

Pupils' success at school owes a great deal to the quality of the teaching and the support provided by their teachers throughout their learning process. The quality of teacher recruitment and training is thus crucial for school performance. The recruitment and initial training of future teachers hav...

The French Federation of Cardiology (FFC), a non-profit organisation governed by the law of 1901 and created in 1964, has been recognised as a public-interest organisation since 1977. It brings together 27 independent regional cardiology associations, spread throughout the country, mainly around the...

The desire for strategic independence and the narrowness of the domestic defence market, combined with the need to build solid military cooperation, have led France to develop an ambitious military equipment export policy. This strategy is part of an international context marked by higher volumes of...