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The Paris agglomeration has shown a steady rate of growth since the end of the late 16th century French Wars of Religion, save brief setbacks during the French Revolution and World War II. With an estimated total of 12.2 million inhabitants for 2017, the annual population growth rate of the Île-de-France région was between 0.3% and 0.9% over ...
Religion by ethnic origins in France (in percentage), 2020 national survey [7] Ethnic origins Christianity Catholicism Other Christians Islam Judaism Buddhism Other religion No religion French without immigrant origins: 40: 32: 8: 1: 0: 0: 0: 58 French with immigrant origins First-generation immigrants: 32: 15: 17: 44: 0: 2: 1: 21 French-born ...
As of 2008, 18.1% of the population of the northern Parisian commune of Saint-Denis was Maghrebian. [12] Melissa K. Brynes, author of French Like Us?Municipal Policies and North African Migrants in the Parisian Banlieues, 1945—1975, wrote that in the middle of the 20th Century, "few of [the Paris-area communes with North African populations] were as engaged with their migrant communities as ...
Censuses on race and ethnic origin were banned by the French government in 1978. [20] In 2021, the Total Fertility Rate of France was 1.82, and 7.7% was the percent of births to women that were their 4th+ child.
Paris (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of France.With an estimated population of 2,102,650 residents in January 2023 [2] in an area of more than 105 km 2 (41 sq mi), [5] Paris is the fourth-most populous city in the European Union, the ninth-most populous city in Europe and the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. [6]
Whereas American culture posits the notion of the "melting-pot" and cultural diversity, the expression "French culture" tends to refer implicitly to a specific geographical entity (as, say, "metropolitan France", generally excluding its overseas departments) or to a specific historico-sociological group defined by ethnicity, language, religion ...
Since the beginning of the Third Republic (1871–1940), the state has not categorized people according to their alleged ethnic origins. Hence, in contrast to the United States Census, French people are not asked to define their ethnic appartenance, whichever it may be. The usage of ethnic and racial categorization is avoided to prevent any ...
In September 2012, Jean-François Copé, the leader of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) and then incumbent for his reelection, denounced the development of anti-white racism by people living in France, some of them French citizens, against the "Gauls" – a name among immigrants for the native French according to him – based on these ...