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Payment delays of French local authorities, 2024 and 2025 How long French local authorities take to pay their suppliers, budget by budget. 182 763 records covering two fiscal years, with the average annual payment delay of each authority and whether it meets the 30-day statutory limit. Open public data This dataset is derived from open public data published by the French Direction générale des finances publiques (DGFiP) on data.gouv.fr, under the Open Licence 2.0.… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/freginer/french-local-authorities-payment-delays.

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Payment delays of French local authorities, 2024 and 2025

How long French local authorities take to pay their suppliers, budget by budget. 182 763 records covering two fiscal years, with the average annual payment delay of each authority and whether it meets the 30-day statutory limit.

Open public data

This dataset is derived from open public data published by the French Direction générale des finances publiques (DGFiP) on data.gouv.fr, under the Open Licence 2.0.

Data SL Consulting is not the producer. This release adds the download, the cleaning, the merge of two fiscal years on a consistent scope, and a conversion to international CSV conventions. No value was added, estimated or reconstructed: every figure comes from the official files, and the aggregation script is public so the computation can be repeated and checked.

Reuse is free, including commercially, provided the source is credited.

What the numbers say

	2024	2025
Budgets analysed	92 218	90 545
Median delay	13.88 d	13.64 d
Mean delay	18.04 d	17.48 d
Above the 30-day statutory limit	11 125 (12.06 %)	9 873 (10.90 %)
Worst delay recorded	1 663.98 d	1 771.67 d

The median improves by a quarter of a day and the share of late payers falls by 1.2 points. Over the same period the worst case deteriorates by 108 days, to nearly five years. The national average improves while the extremes get worse, which makes the national indicator misleading for a supplier: what matters is not the country median but the delay of the specific authority you are invoicing.

Files

`delais_paiement_2024_2025.csv` — 182 763 rows

Column	Description
`millesime`	Fiscal year, 2024 or 2025
`code_departement`	Department code, including 2A, 2B and overseas
`departement`	Department name
`collectivite`	Name of the budget holder
`siret`	SIRET identifier of the public body
`type_budget`	Commune, EPCI, syndicat, département, région, etc.
`nature_budget`	Budget type, `BP` for the main budget
`delai_global_paiement_j`	Average annual payment delay, in days
`respecte_seuil_30j`	`true` if within the 30-day statutory limit

`delais_paiement_departements.csv` — 202 rows

One row per department and fiscal year: number of budgets, median, mean and maximum delay, count and share of budgets above the limit.

Notes on the data

Values are averages over a full year for one budget, not individual invoices. A delay above 1 000 days therefore reflects a persistent situation, not a single late payment.

Numbers use the dot as decimal separator and the comma as field separator. The French originals, semicolon-separated with comma decimals, remain available on the GitHub repository below.

The 2023 vintage is deliberately excluded. Its scope was limited to authorities above 3 500 inhabitants: 17 098 budgets, against 92 218 in 2024. Comparing it with the other two would produce a break in the series that would look like a real trend.

Sources and related work

—Délais de paiement 2025
—Délais de paiement 2024
—Aggregation script, JSON by department and Power BI report: github.com/DataSL/observatoire-delais-paiement-collectivites
—Interactive observatory, in French: data-slconsulting.com

Producer: Direction générale des finances publiques, French ministries for the economy and finance. Processing and packaging: Data SL Consulting, Paris.