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  • Population......................................................................total: 64,057,792
    note: 62,150,775 in metropolitan France (July 2008 est.)
  • Population growth rate .............................................................0.574% (2008 est.)
  • Birth rate...................................................12.73 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
  • Death rate.................................................8.48 deaths/1,000 population (2008 est.)
  • Net migration rate...............................1.48 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2008 est.)
  • Ethnic groups.........Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, Basque minorities
    overseas departments: black, white, mulatto, East Indian, Chinese, Amerindian
Member of what is now the European Union since 1952.
Country Profile
The Challenge of French Diversity
Our updated country profile on France by MPI’s Kim Hamilton and INED’s Patrick Simon now includes information on the headscarf debate and new asylum data.

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Data
Check out French International Migration Data in the Global Data Center
Neighboring Countries

Belgium
Switzerland
Luxembourg
Andorra
Monaco
Spain
Italy
Germany
Other Resources

Ministry of Immigration, Integration, National Identity, and Mutually Supportive Development (French only)
http://www.immigration.gouv.fr

National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE)
http://www.insee.fr/

National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED)
http://www.ined.fr/englishversion/index.html

US Census Bureau International Data Base
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/
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