The profession in numbers

There were 29,831 registered architects in France at the end of 2013. About 1,200 HMONP students graduate each year from schools of architecture and there are about 18,000 undergraduate students.

An additional 995 architects were registered by the Ordre during 2013. On average, the Ordre records 800 registrations each year including 500 recent graduates.

For the most part, the profession is concentrated within only a few regions: Ile de France (32.5% of registered architects), Rhone-Alpes (10.38%) and PACA (9.22%), Aquitaine (5.68%), Midi Pyrenees (5.31%) and Languedoc-Roussillon (4.67%), Pays de la Loire (4.06%).

The profession remains predominantly male, despite a steady growth in the number of female architects: 25% of architects were women in 2013, compared to 7.5% in 1983. Among the new registrations in 2009, there were 39% women.

22% of registered architects are under 40 years, 26% between 40-50 years, 29% between 50-60 years, 19% between 60-70 years and 4% over 70 years. On average, women architects are younger as 34% are under 40, 67% under 50 and only 7.3% over 60 years.

France has 45.1 architects per 100,000 inhabitants registered with the Ordre compared to, on average, 82 within the European Union.