| Population | 68,084,217 (July 2021 est.) note: the above figure is for metropolitan France and five overseas regions; the metropolitan France population is 62,814,233 |
| Nationality | noun: Frenchman(men), Frenchwoman(women) adjective: French |
| Ethnic groups | Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, Basque minorities note: overseas departments: Black, White, Mulatto, East Indian, Chinese, Amerindian |
| Languages | French (official) 100%, declining regional dialects and languages (Provencal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Flemish, Occitan, Picard); note - overseas departments: French, Creole patois, Mahorian (a Swahili dialect) major-language sample(s): The World Factbook, une source indispensable d'informations de base. (French) The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information. |
| Religions | Christian (overwhelmingly Roman Catholic) 63-66%, Muslim 7-9%, Buddhist 0.5-0.75%, Jewish 0.5-0.75%, other 0.5-1.0%, none 23-28% (2015 est.) note: France maintains a tradition of secularism and has not officially collected data on religious affiliation since the 1872 national census, which complicates assessments of France's religious composition; an 1872 law prohibiting state authorities from collecting data on individuals' ethnicity or religious beliefs was reaffirmed by a 1978 law emphasizing the prohibition of the collection or exploitation of personal data revealing an individual's race, ethnicity, or political, philosophical, or religious opinions; a 1905 law codified France's separation of church and state |
| Age structure | 0-14 years: 18.36% (male 6,368,767/female 6,085,318) 15-24 years: 11.88% (male 4,122,981/female 3,938,938) 25-54 years: 36.83% (male 12,619,649/female 12,366,120) 55-64 years: 12.47% (male 4,085,564/female 4,376,272) 65 years and over: 20.46% (male 6,029,303/female 7,855,244) (2020 est.) |
| Dependency ratios | total dependency ratio: 62.4 youth dependency ratio: 28.7 elderly dependency ratio: 33.7 potential support ratio: 3 (2020 est.) |
| Median age | total: 41.7 years male: 40 years female: 43.4 years (2020 est.) |
| Population growth rate | 0.33% (2021 est.) |
| Birth rate | 11.77 births/1,000 population (2021 est.) |
| Death rate | 9.58 deaths/1,000 population (2021 est.) |
| Net migration rate | 1.06 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2021 est.) |
| Population distribution | much of the population is concentrated in the north and southeast; although there are many urban agglomerations throughout the country, Paris is by far the largest city, with Lyon ranked a distant second |
| Urbanization | urban population: 81.2% of total population (2021) rate of urbanization: 0.67% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) |
| Major cities - population | 11.079 million PARIS (capital), 1.734 million Lyon, 1.614 million Marseille-Aix-en-Provence, 1.068 million Lille, 1.037 million Toulouse, 980,000 Bordeaux (2021) |
| Sex ratio | at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female 0-14 years: 1.05 male(s)/female 15-24 years: 1.05 male(s)/female 25-54 years: 1.02 male(s)/female 55-64 years: 0.93 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.77 male(s)/female total population: 0.96 male(s)/female (2020 est.) |
| Mother's mean age at first birth | 28.8 years (2019 est.) |
| Maternal mortality rate | 8 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.) |
| Infant mortality rate | total: 3.19 deaths/1,000 live births male: 3.57 deaths/1,000 live births female: 2.79 deaths/1,000 live births (2021 est.) |
| Life expectancy at birth | total population: 82.39 years male: 79.31 years female: 85.61 years (2021 est.) |
| Total fertility rate | 2.04 children born/woman (2021 est.) |
| Contraceptive prevalence rate | 78.4% (2010/11) |
| Drinking water source | improved: urban: 100% of population rural: 100% of population total: 100% of population unimproved: urban: 0% of population rural: 0% of population total: 0% of population (2017 est.) |
| Health expenditures | 11.3% (2018) |
| Physicians density | 3.27 physicians/1,000 population (2018) |
| Hospital bed density | 6 beds/1,000 population (2017) |
| Sanitation facility access | improved: urban: 100% of population rural: 100% of population total: 100% of population unimproved: urban: 0% of population rural: 0% of population total: 0% of population (2017 est.) |
| HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate | 0.3% (2019 est.) |
| HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS | 190,000 (2019 est.) |
| HIV/AIDS - deaths | <500 (2019 est.) |
| Major infectious diseases | note: widespread ongoing transmission of a respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is occurring throughout France; as of 19 July 2021, France has reported a total of 5,753,579 cases of COVID-19 or 8,846.3 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with 169.92 cumulative deaths per 100,000 population; as of 19 July 2021, 55.97% of the population has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine |
| Obesity - adult prevalence rate | 21.6% (2016) |
| Education expenditures | 5.5% of GDP (2017) |
| School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education) | total: 16 years male: 16 years female: 16 years (2018) |
Source: CIA World Factbook
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