Official Company Headcount — France, Norway, UK, Latvia, Estonia, Czechia, Slovakia, Romania & Japan

Employee numbers you can cite: the figure the state publishes from employers' own declarations, for supplier and KYC checks, sizing a sales list, due diligence and market research. Give company names or registry numbers. For each company you get the registry number, the official headcount or band, what that figure measures and when, the source and licence, and why a figure is missing when there is none — in the same columns for every country. No login, no API key, $2 per 1,000 companies plus $0.01 a run.

Try it now — the input is already filled in. Press Start: a French name, a Norwegian registry number and a UK company number come back with the official figure in about 9 seconds, for about $0.02.

country	name	employees	employeesAsOf	employeesBasis
FR	DECATHLON	5000-9999	2024	INSEE salaried-employee band
NO	EQUINOR ASA	21231	2026-10-10	employees registered with NAV
UK	TIDE PLATFORM LTD	934 (956 a year before)	2025-12-31	average employees in the filed accounts

Every figure says when it is from and where it comes from, so you can cite it. A name can match several companies: FR: Decathlon also returns DECATHLON FRANCE (10000+) and a third company at the same address, ranked and marked needsReview; a registry number returns exactly one.

country	official figure	updated
France	INSEE employee band, plus the latest published turnover and profit	yearly, more than a year behind
Norway	exact employees registered with NAV	about monthly
UK	average employees from the accounts filed at Companies House	yearly
Latvia, Estonia	the tax boards' employee count for every company	quarterly
Czechia (CZ: name or IČO), Slovakia (IČO only)	the statistical register's size category	yearly
Romania (CUI only)	exact average employees, plus turnover and net profit from the filed annual statement	yearly
Japan (法人番号, or a name in Japanese)	exact employees shown on gBizINFO (METI), with the source it names and that source's update date	as the source updates

It is not a live LinkedIn headcount: it counts people on the payroll as declared to the state, not profiles, and each row says how old the figure is. For today's LinkedIn count and its growth week by week, use LinkedIn Company Scraper with Headcount Growth.

What the filled-in input returned on 18 Oct 2026 (8 s, $0.02), plus one Latvian and one Estonian name in a second run (11 s):

you typed	registry number	company	official figure	as of
FR: Decathlon	306138900	DECATHLON	5,000–9,999 (INSEE band)	2024
923609016	923609016	EQUINOR ASA	21,231 (NAV)	2026-10-10
UK:09595646	09595646	TIDE PLATFORM LTD	934 (average in the accounts)	2025-12-31
LV: airBaltic	40003245752	AIR BALTIC CORPORATION AS	2,761 (VID, 2026 Q3)	2026-09-30
EE: Bolt Technology	12417834	BOLT TECHNOLOGY OÜ	629 (EMTA, 2026 Q3)	2026-09-30

A name can match several registered companies: FR: Decathlon also returned DECATHLON FRANCE (10,000+) and a third company, each row saying why it matched.

What you get

Field	France	Norway	UK
companyId	SIREN	Organisasjonsnummer	Company number
employees	– (France publishes bands)	exact count	average over the financial year
employeesMin / employeesMax / employeeBand	INSEE band, e.g. 5000–9999	the count, or the official 0–4 range	the average
employeesAsOf	reference year (31 Dec of that year)	date of the NAV registration	end of the financial year (periodStart too)
previousEmployees, previousEmployeesAsOf, employeesChange	–	–	last year's average from the same accounts, and the change
employeeAnswer	count, range, none or missing	same	count or missing
missingReason	why there is no figure	same	same
companySize, revenue, netIncome, financialYear	INSEE size category and the latest published accounts	–	– (accountsMadeUpTo, accountsFiledOn, accountsDocumentUrl instead)
status, legalForm, industryCode, city, foundedOn, registryUrl	yes	yes	status (name searches) and registryUrl
address	registered address of the seat	registered business address	–
source, license, licenseUrl, retrievedAt, attribution	on every row	on every row	on every row

address is the registered address of a company (France, Norway, Czechia and Japan). It is left empty for a sole proprietor (France: legal form 1xxx, Norway: ENK, Czechia: a natural person), whose registered address is often a home, and for the other countries.

Romania also fills previousEmployees, previousEmployeesAsOf and employeesChange from the year before's statement (one more ANAF request, still two years at most). The other countries leave them null.

What changed since your last run

Every row also carries the figure your own earlier runs returned for the same company, in every country:

Field	Meaning
employeesAtLastRun, employeeBandAtLastRun, employeesAsOfAtLastRun	the figure, band and reference date when your runs last returned this company
lastRunAt	when that was
changedSinceLastRun	true if the figure, band or reference date moved, false if not, null the first time you look a company up

Norway's register moves every month, the Latvian and Estonian tax files every quarter, UK accounts and Romanian statements once a year. Schedule the same list and turn on Only companies whose figure changed (onlyChanged): unchanged companies are left out and not charged, so each run returns only what moved. The run's summary counts changedSinceLastRun, unchangedSinceLastRun, firstSeen and skippedUnchanged. The figures are kept in a store named registry-headcount-seen in your account.

Latvia and Estonia use the same columns:

Field	Latvia	Estonia
companyId	Registration number (11 digits)	Registry code (8 digits)
employees	average number of employed persons in the quarter	employed persons in the employment register on the last day of the quarter
employeesAsOf	last day of the quarter (periodStart too)	last day of the quarter
quarter	e.g. 2026-Q3	same
employeeAnswer	count (0 is VID's own figure) or missing	count or missing
industry, city, registryUrl	–	yes (registryUrl is the e-Business Register page)

Official "no employees" is an answer, not a gap

• France NN: no salaried staff, or presumed so for want of a declaration. Returned as employeeAnswer: "none".
• France 00: 0 employees on 31 December, but it did employ people during that year. Returned as a count of 0.
• Norway, no employees registered with NAV: returned as employeeAnswer: "none" and never written as 0.
• Norway, employees registered but no number: the registry leaves the number empty when a business has 0–4 employees (Enhetsregisteret API changelog, version 2). Returned as the range 0–4.
• missing is kept for real gaps only, for example when a French company has asked for partial publication. A hidden figure is never guessed.

Names or numbers

Registry numbers are the sure way. A 9-digit number is checked against both check-digit rules, so the Actor knows whether it is a SIREN or a Norwegian organisation number. A 14-digit SIRET finds its company. A UK company number has 8 characters (09595646, SC045551). A Latvian registration number has 11 digits. An Estonian registry code has 8 digits and a check digit; an 8-digit number without a prefix that passes the Estonian check is looked up in both the UK and Estonia. Put FR:, NO:, UK:, LV: or EE: in front to force a country. A Czech IČO (8 digits, check digit) needs CZ: in front, or Czechia picked in Countries for names; leading zeros a spreadsheet dropped are put back.

Names return candidates, never one silent pick. Each candidate carries:

• matchReason: exact name, exact trade name (BlaBlaCar is registered as COMUTO) or name contains every word.
• confidence: high only for the one exact name, otherwise review.
• otherMatches: how many more candidates were left out.

Works councils, foundations, clubs, pension trustees and nominee companies that carry the company's name are left out. A name that says Group or Holding must have that word in the company's name to count as exact. So are fuzzy hits that share only part of a word.

A registry counts one legal entity. A listed holding often has a handful of staff (STOREBRAND ASA: 8), while its operating company holds the people (STOREBRAND LIVSFORSIKRING AS: 1,155). Raise Max candidates per name to see both side by side.

The registries' name search looks at current names only. A company that was renamed is found under its new name (Sendinblue → Brevo) or by its number.

The UK: electronic accounts only

Companies House gives away its accounts as free bulk data. This Actor takes only the employee number written in a company's latest accounts (the average number of employees during the financial year); the text of the accounts is never returned.

Be aware of what that covers:

• Electronically filed accounts only. Accounts filed on paper or as a PDF are not in the bulk data, and most large companies file PDFs: see the measurements below. Those rows say not machine-readable (paper or PDF filing, ...) and are not charged.
• The latest 13 months of filings. The free bulk data keeps 60 daily files and 12 monthly files. Older accounts come back as accounts older than the free bulk data.
• No accounts filed yet (new companies) and dormant companies return a reason, not a figure.
• A UK lookup reads the filing history and then the accounts file, so it takes a few seconds per company (longer for the first company of each month).

Latvia and Estonia: the tax boards' quarterly files

Both tax boards publish, every quarter, a file with every company's taxes paid and its number of employees. This Actor reads the file once per run and keeps only the rows that match your companies.

• Latvia (VID, the State Revenue Service, on data.gov.lv): the average number of employed persons in the quarter. The file holds the latest quarter only. A 0 is VID's own figure and is returned as a count of 0. The portal says the data is for information only and has no legal force.
• Estonia (EMTA, the Tax and Customs Board): the number of employed persons with a valid entry in the employment register on the last day of the quarter, management and supervisory board members excluded. EMTA leaves the figure blank when nobody is counted; such a row says so in missingReason and is not charged. Only the latest quarter in the file is used, so last spring's headcount is never shown as current.
• Not returned: Estonian self-employed persons (FIE) and Latvian individual merchants (IK), because their name is a person's name.
• A run that names Latvia or Estonia downloads the file (about 15 MB and 66 MB), which adds some seconds. A run whose companies all name another country (by prefix or number) does not.

Czechia: the statistical register's size category (only when you ask)

Write CZ: before a name or an IČO (CZ: Škoda Auto, CZ:00177041), or pick Czechia in Countries for names. Czechia is never searched by default, so a list of French or Norwegian names does not pick up Czech namesakes.

• What the figure is: the employee size category the Czech Statistical Office keeps in its business register (RES), read through ARES, the Ministry of Finance's public register service. It is a range (200-249, 10000+), not a count, and RES does not say which year it describes, so employeesAsOf stays empty and registryUpdatedAt gives the date of the RES record.
• Official none and not stated: category 110 (no employees) comes back as an official none; category 000 (not stated) or no RES record comes back with the reason and is not charged.
• Left out: people in business (natural persons), associations, sports clubs, trade unions, foundations and endowment funds that carry the company's name (CZ: Škoda Auto also finds the Škoda Auto endowment fund, a union branch and four sports clubs).
• Measured on 20 October 2026: 20 well-known Czech companies by name. All 20 were found, and 17 had a category: Škoda Auto a.s. 10,000+, ČEZ a.s. 5,000-9,999, Kiwi.com s.r.o. 250-499, JetBrains s.r.o. 200-249.

Slovakia: by IČO only

Write SK: before a Slovak IČO (SK:35763469). The figure is the organisation size category the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic assigns, as published in the Register of Financial Statements (RÚZ), for example Slovak Telekom 2,000-2,999, SLOVNAFT 2,000-2,999, Slovenská sporiteľňa 3,000-3,999 (20 October 2026). The RÚZ API has no name search, so a Slovak name is answered with a request for the IČO. Category 01 (0 employees) is an official none; 00 (unknown) comes back with the reason and is not charged.

Romania: exact average headcount, turnover and profit, by CUI

Write the CUI with RO: in front or in its VAT form (RO14399840). The figure is the average number of employees in the financial year from the company's annual financial statements, read through ANAF's public web service, and the same row carries the net turnover and net profit or loss in RON. The latest filed year is used (statements are due by the end of May). Measured on 20 October 2026, financial year 2025: Dante International (eMAG) 2,889 employees, OMV Petrom 6,701, Bitdefender 1,665. ANAF allows one request a second, so Romanian companies take about a second each. ANAF has no name search, so a Romanian name is answered with a request for the CUI.

Japan: by 法人番号 or by a name written in Japanese

Give the 13-digit corporate number (法人番号), with or without JP: in front (1180301018771, JP:1180301018771), or the company name in Japanese (トヨタ自動車, サイボウズ). A name in Latin letters goes to Japan only with JP: in front. The figure is the number of employees gBizINFO shows, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's open corporate database, and employeesBasis names where gBizINFO took it from (most often the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's workplace information site). employeesAsOf is the date that source last updated its data. Legal forms do not matter in a name (株式会社サイボウズ = サイボウズ株式会社), and a name that contains the whole query is a partial match, marked review.

• Measured on 22 October 2026: トヨタ自動車株式会社 83,533 (source updated 2026-07-25), サイボウズ株式会社 1,096 (2026-04-26). A name returned the exact company first and サイボウズ・ラボ株式会社 as a partial match.
• No figure: most small corporations have none on gBizINFO; they come back with the reason and are not charged. Closed corporations are left out of name searches unless Include closed companies is on.
• Left out: the representative's name is never read. Trade unions, health insurance societies, pension funds and employee shareholding associations that carry the company's name are not returned.
• gBizINFO is read one page at a time with a pause, so a Japanese company takes one to a few seconds.

What it is for

• Filtering a sales list by size, including dropping companies that officially employ nobody.
• Building a population for market research: every company in a sector or town, with its size.
• Keeping an audit trail: every row carries the source, licence, reference year and retrieval date.

Measured on 18 October 2026

40 well-known companies per country, searched by name:

	France	Norway
Employee figure or band returned	90%	88%
Right legal entity found from the name	83%	90%
Reference year known, where a figure was returned	100%	100%

40 companies per country picked at random from the registry (active companies only, sole traders excluded):

	France	Norway
An answer returned (figure, range or official "none")	100%	100%
Employee figure or band returned	23%	13%
No figure because the company officially employs nobody	77%	87%

Most registered companies at random are property holdings, associations and housing co-operatives that employ nobody.

The UK, measured the same day:

	Well-known (40)	Random active (80, two samples)
Employee figure returned	5% (2 of 40)	61% (49 of 80; 21 and 28 of 40)
Right company found from the name	100%	– (looked up by number)
Why the rest have no figure	PDF filing 37, no accounts filed 1	no accounts filed yet 15, older than the bulk data 6, dormant 4, PDF 3, no figure in the accounts 3

So the UK works for small and mid-sized companies, which mostly file electronic accounts; it rarely works for big groups, which file PDFs. A row without a figure costs nothing. Searches by name are slower than lookups by number, because each name is searched in each chosen country.

Latvia and Estonia, measured the same day on the files for 2026 Q3:

	Latvia	Estonia
Well-known (40), searched by name: employee figure returned	98% (39 of 40)	92% (37 of 40)
Well-known: right company found from the name	95% (37 of 39 found)	92% (35 of 38 found)
Random companies (40, by number): employee figure returned	100% (20 of them a 0)	43% (17 of 40; the rest blank in the EMTA file)

Misses in Latvia: Latvijas Banka (the central bank is not in the file); "Olainfarm" found only a small namesake, OLAINFARM ENERĢIJA, and "Dzintars" found DZINTARS AB SIA (marked review, with 13 other candidates). The Latvian list used the current name Amber Latvijas balzams (searched as Latvijas Balzams, it is not found). Misses in Estonia: Skype Technologies and Glia Technologies were not in the file, and "Enefit Green" found only ENEFIT GREEN SOLAR OÜ. In both countries a listed holding is its own legal entity with a few staff (AKTSIASELTS EKSPRESS GRUPP: 12); raise Max candidates per name to see the operating companies.

Sources and licences (attribution required)

• France: INSEE SIRENE and the RNE, read through the government's API Recherche d'entreprises (recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr). Licence Ouverte 2.0 (Etalab). The Actor stays under the API's limit of 7 requests a second.

• Norway: Enhetsregisteret, Brønnøysund Register Centre (data.brreg.no); the employee figure comes from the NAV employer register. Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD) 2.0.

• UK: Companies House. The latest accounts are found on the public filing history, and the employee number is taken from the bulk accounts data Companies House provides free of charge (download.companieshouse.gov.uk). Only that number, the dates and links come back; the text of the accounts is not copied.

• Latvia: State Revenue Service (VID), "taxes paid by taxpayers in the quarter" with the average number of employed persons, on the Latvian Open Data Portal (data.gov.lv). CC0 1.0.

• Estonia: Estonian Tax and Customs Board (EMTA), "taxes paid, turnover and number of employees", current and previous year (emta.ee open data). CC BY-SA 3.0.

• Czechia: Czech Statistical Office business register (RES), read through ARES, Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic (ares.gov.cz). ARES states that anyone may use its services within its operating conditions (ares.gov.cz/stranky/podminky-provozu); the Actor asks one company at a time, at most two requests per company, well under ARES's limit of 500 a minute.

• Romania: ANAF, the Romanian tax administration: public information from the annual financial statements (webservicesp.anaf.ro/bilant), used within ANAF's rule of at most one request a second.

• Slovakia: Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic size category, via the Register of Financial Statements (RÚZ, registeruz.sk). CC0 1.0 (RÚZ Open API).

• Japan: gBizINFO, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (info.gbiz.go.jp), from its public corporation pages. Government of Japan Standard Terms of Use 2.0, compatible with CC BY 4.0: name the source, and say that you processed the data when you did. Each row's attribution line does both.

Rows from Estonia must be used under CC BY-SA 3.0: name EMTA as the source and pass the data on under the same licence. Each Estonian row carries the source and the licence name for this.

The French and Norwegian licences require you to name the source when you reuse the data. Latvia's CC0 does not, but its rows carry the source too. Every row has an attribution line you can copy, for example Source: Enhetsregisteret, Brønnøysund Register Centre (data.brreg.no); employees from the NAV employer register, Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD) 2.0, retrieved 2026-10-18.

What is never returned

• People. France's officer list is dropped, and the UK's directors and the text of its accounts are never read into the output. Sole traders are skipped in France, Norway, Latvia (IK), Estonia (FIE) and Czechia and Slovakia (natural persons in business), because their company name is a person's name. Norwegian phone numbers are not copied. Japan's representative name is never read (a 法人番号 belongs to a corporation, never to a sole trader).
• Guesses. A band the registry hides stays empty, with the reason.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.01 per run plus $2.00 per 1,000 companies returned with a figure, a range or an official "no employees". Rows that come back with only a missing reason (a UK PDF filing, a French band hidden at the company's request, a blank Estonian quarter), not-found and error rows are not charged. A company asked twice in one run (by name and by number) is returned and charged once.

Input example

Latvia and Estonia: ["LV: Air Baltic Corporation", "40003032949", "EE: Bolt Technology", "EE:10234957"].

{
  "companies": ["Decathlon", "306138900", "NO:923609016", "Storebrand"],
  "countries": ["FR", "NO"],
  "maxMatchesPerName": 3
}

Output example

{
  "type": "company",
  "query": "923609016",
  "country": "NO",
  "companyId": "923609016",
  "name": "EQUINOR ASA",
  "status": "active",
  "employees": 21231,
  "employeesMin": 21231,
  "employeesMax": 21231,
  "employeeBand": "21231",
  "employeeAnswer": "count",
  "employeesAsOf": "2026-10-10",
  "employeesBasis": "Employees registered with NAV (Aa-registeret), as copied into Enhetsregisteret",
  "missingReason": null,
  "matchReason": "registry number",
  "confidence": "high",
  "legalForm": "Allmennaksjeselskap",
  "industryCode": "06.100",
  "registryUrl": "https://virksomhet.brreg.no/oppslag/enheter/923609016",
  "license": "Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD) 2.0",
  "retrievedAt": "2026-10-18T08:00:00.000Z"
}