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HASOn January 1, 2021, 67,408,000 individuals lived in France, excluding Mayotte. This is the flagship determine from the most recent census printed by INSEE on the finish of 2023.

The French inhabitants has elevated by 203,000 inhabitants since 2015, a rise of 0.3% per 12 months on common. If France subsequently continues to realize inhabitants, demographic development is much less sustained than earlier than. “This slowdown is due to a lower contribution from the natural balance in all regions except Guyana,” says INSEE.

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This is especially because of the variety of births, the bottom for the reason that finish of the Second World War. Especially since “the number of deaths is increasing due to the arrival at advanced ages of large baby boom generations and, to a lesser extent, the Covid-19 epidemic”.

Twice as many inhabitants in city areas as in rural areas

23 departments have misplaced inhabitants in recent times. Rural departments like Charente, Dordogne, Cantal or Orne. “Demographic growth is twice as high in urban areas (+0.4%) as in rural areas (+0.2%),” based on the nationwide statistics institute. A lesson to be discovered for INSEE: “Demographic growth is twice as high in urban areas as in rural areas. » In France, 45 million people live in urban areas compared to around 22 million in rural areas.

Demographic growth is strongest in Guyana, Corsica and Occitania

In the overseas departments, only Guadeloupe (-0.6%) and Martinique (-0.9%) saw their population decline “under the effect of particularly negative apparent migratory balances, which include movements of population with abroad and with other French regions”.

The areas with the best development are Guyana (+ 1.6%), Corsica (+ 1%) and Occitanie (+ 0.7%). Île-de-France unsurprisingly stays essentially the most populated area with greater than 12 million inhabitants, forward of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Nouvelle-Aquitaine.


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