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In the 1950s and 1960s, France's population grew at 1% per year: the highest growth in the history of France, higher even than the high growth rates of the 18th or 19th century. Since 1975, France's population growth rate has significantly diminished, but it still remains slightly higher than that of the rest of Europe, and much faster than at ...
In 1974 France stopped allowing foreign workers into its borders. The Asian population of France increased despite the closure. In 1975 there were 20,000 Asians in Île-de-France. In 1982 the region had 59,000. This increased to 108,000 in 1990. [27] In France the "Asians" are defined as people originating from the East Asian cultural sphere.
The Brazilian census enumerated people by race in all censuses since 1872 with the exception of 1900, 1920, and 1970. [198] The Brazilian census classifies people by race as either white, black, pardo (brown), yellow (Asian), or indigenous.
The collection of official estimates of ethnicity and race is prohibited in France. [21] Ethnic groups in the country are the French and native minorities such as Corsicans , Bretons , Basques and Alsatians .
Although it is illegal for the government of France to collect data on ethnicity and race in the census (a law with its origins in the 1789 revolution and reaffirmed in the constitution of 1958), [4] various population estimates exist.
In Fearon's analysis, only groups containing over one percent of the country's population were considered. This limit made Papua New Guinea an outlier; as none of its thousands of groups included more than one percent of the population, it was considered to have zero groups and thus have a perfect fractionalization score of 1.
The French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) is responsible for France's population census, a major source of data.. Since 2004, INSEE no longer carries out a general population census every eight or nine years, but instead conducts annual sample censuses, [2] [He 3] registering immigrants who have lived in France for more than a year. [2]
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. [91] In the 21st century, France has the largest Jewish population in Europe , [ 91 ] [ 92 ] followed by the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia and Ukraine.