2020 French Amateur Radio Statistics

France's National Frequency Agency the ANFR has released the amateur radio statistics for 2020

National amateur radio society, the REF, says "We have just received from the ANFR the statistical data on the evolution of the last five years 2020 encouraging signs in a difficult context".

At the end of 2020, there were 13956 individual radio amateurs with active callsigns, 391 Club callsigns and 1097 repeater stations.

In 2019 there had been 13609 amateurs, so 2020 showed a gain of 347. In January 2019 the fee for applying for or renewing the licence was abolished, it's likely this has resulted in more amateurs keeping their callsign.

In 2020 there were 219 candidates for France's 40 question HAREC compatible amateur radio exam, 154 of them passed giving a pass rate of 70%

French Amateur Radio Statistics - https://tinyurl.com/IARU-France