Demographics of France | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: Subhajit Sahu
Date: 2018-12-05

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Demographics of France


00:03:22 1 Historical overview
00:03:31 1.1 1800 to 20th century
00:07:39 1.2 After World War II
00:09:31 1.3 Historical summary
00:12:12 1.4 Historical population figures
00:13:39 1.5 Total population and population growth rates of the France métropolitaine from 1740 to 1860
00:13:58 1.6 Total Fertility Rate in the 19th century
00:14:21 1.7 Life expectancy from 1818 to 1950
00:14:40 1.8 Age structures of the France métropolitaine from 1740 to 1860 (in&#160;%)
00:15:03 2 Vital statistics from 1900
00:15:27 2.1 Current natural increase for Metropolitan France
00:15:49 2.2 Life expectancy
00:16:12 3 Fertility
00:16:35 4 Births by country of birth or citizenship of the parents
00:16:39 4.1 Births by country of birth of the parents
00:16:48 4.2 Births by citizenship of the parents
00:16:54 5 Demographic statistics
00:17:42 6 Population projections
00:17:53 7 Ethnic groups
00:18:41 8 Immigration
00:19:10 8.1 Before World War II
00:26:06 8.2 After World War II
00:26:51 8.3 Today
00:33:00 8.3.1 Americans in France
00:33:55 8.3.2 Europeans in France
00:35:53 8.3.3 Maghrebis in France
00:42:04 8.3.4 Immigration policy
00:52:12 9 Languages
00:52:49 10 Religion
00:54:22 11 Genetics
00:55:44 12 List of France's iaires urbaines/i (metropolitan areas)
01:00:10 13 See also
01:00:47 14 Notes
01:03:00 15 References
01:05:30 16 Further reading
01:06:06 17 External links



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The demography of France is monitored by the Institut national d'études démographiques (INED) and the Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE). As of 1 January 2018, 67.19 million people lived in France (67,186,638), including all the five overseas departments (2,141,000), but excluding the overseas collectivities and territories (604,000). 65,017,000 of these lived in Metropolitan France, which is mainland France located in Europe.
In March 2017, the population of France officially reached the 67,000,000 mark. It had reached 66,000,000 in early 2014. Between the years 2010-17, the population of France grew from 64,613,000 to 66,991,000 (i.e. about 2.4 million people in a span of 7 years), making France one of the fastest-growing countries in Europe. The population of France is growing by 1,000,000 people every three years- an average annual increase of 340,000 people, or +0.6%.France was historically Europe's most populous country. During the Middle Ages, more than one-quarter of Europe's total population was French; by the seventeenth century, this had decreased slightly to one-fifth. By the beginning of the twentieth century, other European countries, such as Germany and Russia, had caught up with France and overtaken it in number of people. However, the country's population sharply increased with the baby boom following World War II. According to INSEE, since 2004, 200,000 immigrants entered the country annually. One out of two was born in Europe and one in three in Africa. Between 2009-2012, the number of Europeans entering France increased sharply (plus 12% per year on average).The national birth rate, after dropping for a time, began to rebound in the 1990s and currently the country's fertility rate is close to the replacement level. According to a 2006 INSEE study, "the natural increase is close to 300,000 people, a level that has not been reached in more than thirty years." With a total fertility rate of 1.96 in 2016, France however remains the most fertile country in the European Union. Among the 802,000 babies born in metropolitan France in 2010, 80.1% had two French parents, 13.3% had one French parent, and 6.6% had two non-French parents. For the same year, 27.3% of newborns in metropolitan France had at least one foreign-born parent and 23.9% had at least one parent born outside of Europe (parents born in overseas territories are considered as being born in France).Between 2006-08,  about 40% of newborns in France had one foreign-born grandparent (11% bo ...