| Population | 67,106,161 note: the above figure is for metropolitan France and five overseas regions; the metropolitan France population is 62,814,233 (July 2017 est.) |
| Age structure | 0-14 years: 18.53% (male 6,360,218/female 6,076,598) 15-24 years: 11.79% (male 4,045,901/female 3,864,395) 25-54 years: 37.78% (male 12,773,900/female 12,578,256) 55-64 years: 12.42% (male 4,020,507/female 4,315,407) 65 years and over: 19.48% (male 5,648,888/female 7,422,091) (2017 est.) |
| Dependency ratios | total dependency ratio: 59.2 youth dependency ratio: 29.1 elderly dependency ratio: 30.2 potential support ratio: 3.3 (2015 est.) |
| Median age | total: 41.4 years male: 39.6 years female: 43.1 years (2017 est.) |
| Population growth rate | 0.39% (2017 est.) |
| Birth rate | 12.2 births/1,000 population (2017 est.) |
| Death rate | 9.3 deaths/1,000 population (2017 est.) |
| Net migration rate | 1.1 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2017 est.) |
| Urbanization | urban population: 80% of total population (2017) rate of urbanization: 0.76% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.) |
| Major cities - population | PARIS (capital) 10.843 million; Lyon 1.609 million; Marseille-Aix-en-Provence 1.605 million; Lille 1.027 million; Nice-Cannes 967,000; Toulouse 938,000 (2015) |
| 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: 1.01 male(s)/female 55-64 years: 0.93 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.75 male(s)/female total population: 0.96 male(s)/female (2016 est.) |
| Mother's mean age at first birth | 28.1 years (2010 est.) |
| Infant mortality rate | total: 3.2 deaths/1,000 live births male: 3.6 deaths/1,000 live births female: 2.9 deaths/1,000 live births (2017 est.) |
| Life expectancy at birth | total population: 81.9 years male: 78.8 years female: 85.2 years (2017 est.) |
| Total fertility rate | 2.07 children born/woman (2017 est.) |
| Contraceptive prevalence rate | 83% (2010/11) |
| HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate | 0.4% (2016 est.) |
| HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS | 180,000 (2016 est.) |
| HIV/AIDS - deaths | <1000 (2016 est.) |
| 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 (2015 est.) |
| Sanitation facility access | improved: urban: 98.6% of population rural: 98.9% of population total: 98.7% of population unimproved: urban: 1.4% of population rural: 1.1% of population total: 1.3% of population (2015 est.) |
| Nationality | noun: Frenchman(men), Frenchwoman(women) adjective: French |
| Ethnic groups | Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, Basque minorities overseas departments: black, white, mulatto, East Indian, Chinese, Amerindian |
| 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% 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 (2015 est.) |
| Languages | French (official) 100%, declining regional dialects and languages (Provencal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Flemish, Occitan, Picard) overseas departments: French, Creole patois, Mahorian (a Swahili dialect) |
| School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education) | total: 16 years male: 16 years female: 17 years (2014) |
| Education expenditures | 5.5% of GDP (2013) |
| Maternal mortality rate | 8 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.) |
| Health expenditures | 11.5% of GDP (2014) |
| Physicians density | 3.23 physicians/1,000 population (2015) |
| Hospital bed density | 6.4 beds/1,000 population (2011) |
| Obesity - adult prevalence rate | 21.6% (2016) |
Source: CIA World Factbook
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