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Category: Ethnic groups in France. ... Ethnic groups in the overseas departments, collectivities and territories of France (6 C) P. Ethnic groups in Paris (3 C, 3 P) R.
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 ...
Ethnic groups in France (17 C, 51 P) I. Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (2 C, 13 P) Pages in category "Demographics of France"
Ethnic groups in the country are the French and native minorities such as Corsicans, Bretons, Basques and Alsatians. In addition, numerous immigrants and their descendants live in France, including from Europe ( Italians , Spaniards , Portuguese , Romanians ), North Africa ( Algerians , Tunisians , Moroccans ), Sub-Saharan Africa ( Congolese ...
As of 1990 the majority of Asians living in France are ethnic Chinese originating from several countries. [27] 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 ...
Some groups that claim Indigenous minority status in Europe include the Uralic Nenets, Samoyed, and Komi peoples of northern Russia; Circassians of southern Russia and the North Caucasus; Crimean Tatars, Krymchaks and Crimean Karaites of Crimea (Ukraine); Sámi peoples of northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland and northwestern Russia (in an area ...
The Encyclopædia Britannica says that "the French are strongly conscious of belonging to a single nation, but they hardly constitute a unified ethnic group by any scientific gauge", and it mentions as part of the population of France the Basques, the Celts (called Gauls by Romans), and the Germanic (Teutonic) peoples (including the Norsemen or ...
The lists are commonly used in economics literature to compare the levels of ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious fractionalization in different countries. [1] [2] Fractionalization is the probability that two individuals drawn randomly from the country's groups are not from the same group (ethnic, religious, or whatever the criterion is).