We present results based on the first INTEGRAL AGN catalogue . The catalogue includes 42 AGN , of which 10 are Seyfert 1 , 17 are Seyfert 2 , and 9 are intermediate Seyfert 1.5 . The fraction of blazars is rather small with 5 detected objects , and only one galaxy cluster and no star-burst galaxies have been detected so far . The sample consists of bright ( f _ { X } > 5 \times 10 ^ { -12 } erg cm ^ { -2 } s ^ { -1 } ) , low luminosity ( { \bar { L } _ { X } } = 2 \times 10 ^ { 43 } erg s ^ { -1 } ) , local ( { \bar { z } } = 0.020 ) AGN . Although the sample is not flux limited , we find a ratio of obscured to unobscured AGN of 1.5 - 2.0 , consistent with luminosity dependent unified models for AGN . Only four Compton-thick AGN are found in the sample . This implies that the missing Compton-thick AGN needed to explain the cosmic hard X-ray background would have to have lower fluxes than discovered by INTEGRAL so far .