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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.
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).
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Race in France. Race in France is a subject of deep controversy among French people, as the potential existence of racial categorization in France is presently considered a taboo topic. Often considered against the French universalist tradition, discussions of race are considered by some to be part of a trend of Americanization in France. [ 1 ]
Brazilian states according to the percentage of Whites in 2009. The Brazilian census enumerated people by race in all censuses since 1872 with the exception of 1900, 1920, and 1970. [197] The Brazilian census classifies people by race as either white, black, pardo (brown), yellow (Asian), or indigenous.