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French people

citizens or residents of France

The term French people (French: les Français, [the French]) refers to both an ethnic group in Western Europe and the citizens of France. There are about 100 million French people in the world.

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

Ethnicity

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French people are a group of people who have a common French culture, history and language. French people can be found all over the world. The three countries, other than France, with the largest number of French people are the United States, Canada and Argentina.

Citizenship

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The term French people may also be 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

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "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. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 "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. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 17.5 17.6 "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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