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France

68,720,337

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+168.68K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+12.8%from 60.92M
Life expectancy83.0 years2024
Fertility rate1.61births per woman · 2024
Urban population78.8%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaHigh income

A country at every age

How France is shaped by age.

A larger older population makes healthy ageing, care, and a smaller future workforce especially important.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1416.2%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6461.2%Working-age population
Ages 65+22.5%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate9.7births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate9.4deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+0.3births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+91.74Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could France look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 68.22M in 2050—2.5% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202466.55M
  2. 205068.22M
  3. 210068.48M
Median age in 205043.5years
Births in 2050669.05Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050791.29Kduring the year
Life expectancy86.6years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 196047.41M
  2. 197052.01M
  3. 198055.27M
  4. 199058.26M
  5. 200060.92M
  6. 201065.03M
  7. 202067.6M
  8. 202568.72M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/23/2026

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