Total Population
| |
Total |
Male |
Female |
|
Total |
62 370 800 |
30 300 425 |
32 070 375 |
|
Under 20 years |
15 701 534 |
8 027 409 |
7 674 125 |
|
20 to 64 years |
36 552 793 |
18 122 100 |
18 430 693 |
|
65 years and over |
10 116 473 |
4 150 916 |
5 965 557 |
From INSEE |
French living abroad
1,774,200 French citizens live abroad:
- 934,444 in Europe (52.7%)
- 450,831 in America (25.4%)
- 145,000 in North Africa and the Middle East (8.2%)
- 142,013 in Sub-Saharan Africa (8%)
- 101,919 in Asia and Oceania (5.7%)
Most work for overseas companies and average 4 years abroad.
From the Foreign Ministry.
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Population of the Metropolitan area of Major Cities
Estimated for 2005
|
1 |
Paris |
2 138 551 |
|
2 |
Marseille |
794 811 |
|
3 |
Lyon |
472 317 |
|
4 |
Toulouse |
433 055 |
|
5 |
Nice |
338 620 |
|
6 |
Nantes |
277 269 |
|
7 |
Strasbourg |
274 845 |
|
8 |
Montpellier |
248 252 |
|
9 |
Bordeaux |
231 844 |
|
10 |
Lille |
228 328 |
|
11 |
Rennes |
209 375 |
|
12 |
Reims |
196 565 |
|
13 |
Le Havre |
185 972 |
|
14 |
Saint-Étienne |
176 280 |
|
15 |
Toulon |
168 701 |
|
16 |
Angers |
168 279 |
|
17 |
Grenoble |
158 552 |
|
18 |
Dijon |
149 782 |
|
19 |
Nîmes |
148 236 |
|
20 |
Aix-en-Provence |
146 821 |
|
21 |
Brest |
144 899 |
|
22 |
Le Mans |
144 515 |
|
23 |
Amiens |
143 086 |
|
24 |
Tours |
141 621 |
|
25 |
Limoges |
141 176 |
|
26 |
Clermont-Ferrand |
138 681 |
|
27 |
Villeurbanne |
131 445 |
|
28 |
Besançon |
128 426 |
|
29 |
Orléans |
124 149 |
|
30 |
Metz |
123 914 |
|
31 |
Rouen |
112 787 |
|
32 |
Mulhouse |
111 430 |
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Religious Population
Catholicism is the largest religion with about 45 million
adherents The second largest religion in France is the Muslim
population with approximately 5 million adherents, Then come
Protestantism (1 million), Buddhism (600 000), Judaism (525 000) and
French Eastern Orthodoxy (150 000) (data: 2000-2003).
Muslims in France
In 2003, between 5 and 6 million people of Muslim extraction live
in France: over 35% come from Algeria, 25% from Morocco, 10% from
Tunisia (all former French colonies). Some estimate the number of
French converts to be around 30,000.
All these statistics must be taken with some caution: the French
Government does not tally religion in its census information and
other official polls.
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