Demographics & population — France
Population size, age structure, migration, ethnicity, language, education, and health indicators.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Demographics & population at a glance
Population size, age structure, migration, ethnicity, language, education, and health indicators. Key figure for France: 68,374,591
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Population overview
- Population
68,374,591
- Population - note
Note: the above figure is for metropolitan France and five overseas regions; the metropolitan France population is 62,814,233
- Population Growth Rate
0.2%
- 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
- Urban Population
- urban population: 81.8%
- of total population rate of urbanization: 0.67% annual rate of change
- Population in Major Urban Areas
11.208 million PARIS (capital), 1.761 million Lyon, 1.628 million Marseille-Aix-en-Provence, 1.079 million Lille, 1.060 million Toulouse, 1.000 million Bordeaux
- Population: Male/Female
- male: 33,557,094
- female: 34,817,497
Age & family
- Age Structure
- years: 17.3% (male 6,060,087/female 5,792,805) 15-64
- years: 60.7% (male 20,875,861/female 20,615,847) 65
- years and over: 22% (male 6,621,146/female 8,408,845)
- Median Age
- otal: 42.6
- years male: 41
- years female: 44.2 years
- Birth Rate - births/1,000 population
11
- Death Rate - deaths/1,000 population
10
- Total Fertility Rate - children born/woman
1.9
- Gross reproduction rate
1
- Currently married women (ages 15-49)
54.8%
- Mean Age for Mother's First Birth (age 25-49)
28.9
- Mother's mean age at first birth
28.9
- Sex Ratio at Birth - male/female
- at birth: 1.05
- male(s)/female 0-14 years: 1.05
- male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1.01
- male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.79
- male(s)/female total population: 0.96 male(s)/female
Migration
- Net Migration Rate - migrant(s)/1,000 population
1.1
Ethnicity & language
- Ethnic Groups
Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African (Algerian, Moroccan, Tunisian), Indochinese, Basque minorities
- Language Note
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)
- Nationality Noun
- noun: Frenchman(men),
- Frenchwoman(women) adjective: French
Education
- Education Expenditures - percent of GDP
5.5%
- Total School Life Expectancy - (primary to tertiary)
- total: 16
- years male: 16
- years female: 16 years
Health & living conditions
- Life Expectancy at Birth
- total population: 82.6
- years male: 79.8
- years female: 85.5 years
- Infant Mortality Rate
- total: 3.1 deaths/1,000
- live births male: 3.4 deaths/1,000
- live births female: 2.8 deaths/1,000 live births
- Infant Mortality Rate - total deaths/1,000 live births
- total: 3.1 deaths/1,000
- live births male: 3.4 deaths/1,000
- live births female: 2.8 deaths/1,000 live births
- Maternal Mortality Rate - deaths/100,000 live births
8
- Physicians Density - physicians/1,000 population
3.27
- Hospital Bed Density - beds/1,000 population
5.9
- Health Expenditures - percent of GDP
12.2%
- Obesity - adult prevalence rate
21.6%
- Tobacco Use
- total: 33.4%
- male: 34.9%
- female: 31.9%
- Alcohol consumption per capita
- total: 11.44
- liters of pure alcohol beer: 2.52
- liters of pure alcohol wine: 6.44
- liters of pure alcohol spirits: 2.3
- liters of pure alcohol other alcohols: 0.18 liters of pure alcohol
- Drinking Water Source - percent of urban population improved
- urban: 100%
- of population rural: 100%
- of population total: 100% of population
- Sanitation Facility Access - percent of urban population improved
- urban: 100%
- of population rural: 100%
- of population total: 100% of population
