Editing Civil service (section)

====France====
{{Main|French Civil Service}}
The civil service in France (''fonction publique'') is often incorrectly considered to include all government employees including employees of public corporations, such as [[SNCF]].

Public sector employment is classified into three services; State service, Local service and Hospital service. According to government statistics there were 5.5 million public sector employees in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/tableau.asp?reg_id=0&ref_id=NATnon03141|title=Résultats de la recherche|website=www.insee.fr|access-date=2015-04-03|archive-date=2015-04-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150426115106/http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/tableau.asp?reg_id=0&ref_id=NATnon03141|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectivites-locales.gouv.fr/files/files/BIS_96.pdf|title=Local Government employment statistics|access-date=2015-04-03|archive-date=2015-09-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923205833/http://www.collectivites-locales.gouv.fr/files/files/BIS_96.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:85%;"
|- style="background:#efefef;"
! Category !!Central Government!! Local Government !! Health service !! Total
|-
| Education||1,360.6||||||1,360.6
|-
| Police||284.4||40||||324.4
|-
| Defence||280.7||||||280.7
|-
| Health & Social||||241||1,153||1,394.0
|-
| Other||516.1||1,631||||2,147.1
|-
| Total||2,441.8||1,912||1,153||5,506.8
|-
| % Civil servants<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/document.asp?ref_id=ip1496|title=L'emploi dans la fonction publique en 2012 – Insee Première – 1496|website=www.insee.fr|access-date=2015-06-20|archive-date=2015-09-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924225514/http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/document.asp?ref_id=ip1496|url-status=live}}</ref>||62%||75%||72%||-
|}