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This chart shows the average work absenteeism rate in France from 2015 to 2022. The absenteeism rate in France has increased significantly over eight years: from **** percent in 2015, it rose to *** percent in 2022. The year 2020 had a particularly high absenteeism rate due to the Covid pandemic.

The Economic Cost of Absenteeism

In addition to the health and mental suffering for the employee, absenteeism represents a significant cost both for the company and for the government.
In 2018, daily allowances cost the Health Insurance **** billion U.S. dollars, of which *** billion were due to daily sickness allowances. From an economic perspective, an absent employee would cost approximately U.S. dollars per day.
For a company, absenteeism is estimated to cause losses of ** U.S. dollars distributed among lost production, overtime pay, or extra hours. Overall, the national cost of absenteeism has been estimated at *** billion U.S. dollars.

Geography of Absenteeism

Not all geographic areas are affected by absenteeism uniformly. In France, Île-de-France records the lowest absenteeism rate (**** percent), while Corsica’s rate exceeds * percent.
From a European perspective, Nordic countries seem to have better figures than France: the absenteeism rate in the Netherlands was *** percent in 2019 and *** percent in Denmark.