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In March 2017, the population of France officially reached the 67,000,000 mark. It had reached 66,000,000 in early 2014. [ 6 ] 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 Paris Region, or Île-de-France, covers 12,012 km 2 (4,638 sq mi), and has its own regional council and president. It has a population of 12,213,447 as of January 2018, or 18.3 percent of the population of France. [2] The metropolitan or functional area (aire d'attraction) of Paris covers 18,941 km 2 (7,313 sq mi) and has 13,064,617 ...
As of 2008, the French national institute of statistics INSEE estimated that 5.3 million foreign-born immigrants and 6.5 million direct descendants of immigrants (born in France with at least one immigrant parent) lived in France representing a total of 11.8 million and 19% of the total population in metropolitan France (62.1 million in 2008).
The Jewish population of Europe in 2010 was estimated to be approximately 1.4 million (0.2% of European population) or 10% of the world's Jewish population. [89] In the 21st century, France has the largest Jewish population in Europe , [ 89 ] [ 90 ] followed by the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia and Ukraine.
Black French people also known as French Black people or Afro-French (Afro-Français) are French people who are of Sub-Saharan African (including Malagasy people and Afro-Arabs) or Melanesian ancestry. It also includes people of mixed African/Melanesian and French ancestry. The absence of a legal definition of what it means to be "black" in ...
Racism has been called a serious social issue in French society, despite a widespread public belief that racism does not exist on a serious scale in France. [1] Antisemitism and prejudice against Muslims have a long history, largely due to the significant number of an estimated 480,000–550,000 Jews living in France.
Map showing countries where the ethnicity or race of people was enumerated in at least one census since 1991. Many countries and national censuses currently enumerate or have previously enumerated their populations by race, ethnicity, nationality, or a combination of these characteristics.
The population density of the EU is 106 people per km 2.N.B. the light in the North Sea is from oil platforms. A cartogram depicting the population distribution between old EU-27 member states in 2008 (including the UK and excluding Croatia). 57.8% of all citizens of the EU live in the four largest member states: Germany, France, Italy, and Spain.