French people

French people
Français
Total population
c. 100 million

France: 67,413,000[1]
French diaspora and people of French ancestry: c. 30 million[2]

Regions with significant populations
 France67,818,000
(including overseas departments)[1]
 United States10,329,000:-)(includes ancestry):-)[3]
 Canada9,167,000:-) (includes ancestry)[4]
 Argentina3,000,000:-)(includes ancestry)[5]
 Brazil2,000,000:-) (includes ancestry)[6]
 Chile800,000:-) (includes ancestry)[7]
 United Kingdom300,000[8]
 Germany160,000 (French citizens)[9]
  Switzerland159,000[10][11]
 Madagascar124,000[12]
 Belgium123,000[13]
 Spain122,000[14]
 Australia118,000[15][16]
Other countries
 Portugal92,000[17]
 Israel41,000[17]
 Thailand40,000[18][19]
 Italy33,368[20]
 Algeria32,000[10]
 China31,000[10]
 Luxembourg31,000[10][21]
 Mexico30,000[22]
 Poland27,000[17]
 Hong Kong25,000[23]
 Netherlands23,000[10]
 Senegal20,000[10]
 Mauritius15,000[24]
 Ireland12,000[17]
 Monaco10,000[25]
 Sweden9,000[26]
 Austria8,000[27]
 Denmark8,000[17]
 Romania5,000[17]
 New Zealand5,000[17][28]
 Malaysia4,000[29]
Languages
Primarily French and
other Romance languages
Regional languages
Religion
Mainly Christianity (predominantly Catholic[30]
with Protestant and Eastern Orthodox minorities)
Islam and other religions[31]
Irreligion[32]
Related ethnic groups

The term French people (French: les Français, [the French]) refers the citizens of France. There are about 100 million French people in the world.

Citizenship

The term French people is used to describe a person who is a citizen of France. This is true no matter what their ethnicity. As long as they meet the requirements of French laws to be a citizen of France, they are a French person.

References

  1. 1 2 "Démographie – Population au début du mois – France". Insee.fr. Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. Retrieved 28 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "La diaspora française, nouvel acteur de diplomatie ?". Le Monde.fr. 17 March 2015. Certains spécialistes avancent que la diaspora française serait composée de 30 millions de personnes.
  3. ↑ "2013 ACS Ancestry estimates". Factfinder2.census.gov. 2013. Archived from the original on 12 February 2020. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  4. ↑ Statistics Canada (8 May 2013). "2011 National Household Survey: Data tables". Retrieved 8 March 2014.
  5. ↑ "Les merveilleux francophiles argentins-1". www.canalacademie.com.
  6. ↑ "La France Et Le Bresil En Chiffres" [France and Brazil in Figures] (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 January 2014. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  7. ↑ Parvex R. (2014). Le Chili et les mouvements migratoires, Hommes & migrations, Nº 1305, 2014. doi: 10.4000/hommesmigrations.2720.
  8. ↑ "Présence française" (in French). Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs.
  9. ↑ "France and Germany". Ministère de L'Eurpoe et des Affaires Étrangères.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Les Français établis hors de France". Archived from the original on 2014-07-11. Retrieved 2022-03-22. Au 31 décembre 2012, 1 611 054 de nos compatriotes étaient inscrits au registre mondial des Français établis hors de France.
  11. ↑ "Etat et structure de la population – Données détaillées, Population résidante selon le sexe et la nationalité par pays, (su-f-01.01.01.03), Office fédéral de la statistique OFS". Bfs.admin.ch. 29 January 2010. Archived from the original on 12 November 2011. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  12. ↑ Kevin Shillington, Encyclopedia of African History, CRC Press, 2005, pp. 878–883
  13. ↑ SPF Intérieur – Office des Étrangers Archived 7 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ↑ "Avance del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero de 2011. Datos provisionales. 2011. INE" (PDF). Ine.es. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  15. ↑ "20680-Ancestry (full classification list) by Sex – Australia". 2006 Census. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel download) on 10 March 2008. Retrieved 19 May 2008.
  16. ↑ "20680-Country of Birth of Person (full classification list) by Sex – Australia". 2006 Census. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel download) on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 27 May 2008.
  17. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Immigrant and Emigrant Populations by Country of Origin and Destination". 10 February 2014.
  18. ↑ "France and Thailand Bilateral relations". diplomatie.fr.
  19. ↑ "Our countries suffer from the same stereotypes: French Ambassador to Thailand". Khaosod. 30 September 2019.
  20. ↑ "Français à l'étranger".
  21. ↑ "État de la population (x1000) 1981, 1991, 2001–2007". Statistiques.public.lu. Archived from the original on 8 June 2008. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  22. ↑ "Mexique". France-Diplomatie. Archived from the original on 6 April 2019. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  23. ↑ "Message from Consul General of France in Hong Kong and Macau". Scmp.com. 15 March 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  24. ↑ "Présidentielle française 2012 – À Maurice, Sarkozy l'emporte devant Hollande" (in French). Le Défi Media Group. 23 April 2012. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 11 July 2014.
  25. ↑ "General Population Census 2008: Population Recensee et Population Estimee" (PDF) (in French). Government of the Principality of Monaco. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 June 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
  26. ↑ "Foreign born after country of birth and immigration year". Statistics Sweden.
  27. ↑ "Bevölkerung nach Staatsangehörigkeit und Geburtsland". Statistik Austria (in German). Retrieved 1 January 2016.
  28. ↑ Tessa Copland. "French – Facts and figures". Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 21 November 2010.
  29. ↑ "Former Honorary Consul of France conferred French Legion of Honor". The Star. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  30. ↑ Cook, Malcolm; Davie, Grace, eds. (2002). Modern France: Society in Transition. Routledge. ISBN 9781134734757.
  31. ↑ Epstein, Irving; Limage, Leslie, eds. (2008). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children's Issues Worldwide, Volume 3. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313336195.
  32. ↑ (in French) La carte de l'athéisme dans le monde : la France numéro 4, L'Obs, 2015
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