Editing Demographics of France (section)

=== Fertility ===
[[File:Fertility rate of France overtime from 1800 to 2016.svg|thumb|450px|Fertility rate of France overtime from 1800 to 2016]]
France has a high fertility rate compared to other European countries; this rate has increased after reaching a historic low in the early 1990s.
* Total fertility rate: 2.01 children born per woman for [[metropolitan France]] and the [[overseas departments]] (in 2012),<ref name="fertility">{{cite web |author=[[INSEE]] |title=Fécondité totale, fécondité selon le groupe d'âges de la mère et âge moyen des mères à l'accouchement |url=http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/tableau.asp?reg_id=0&ref_id=bilandemo3 |access-date=12 November 2013 |language=fr}}</ref> 2.00 for metropolitan France alone (in 2010).<ref>{{cite web |title=Tableau complémentaire 2 : Taux de fécondité par groupe d'âges |url=http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/ipweb/ip1332/ip1332.xls=Tabc2 |access-date=19 January 2011 |website=[[INSEE]] |publisher=[[Cabinet of France|Government of France]] |language=fr}}</ref>
* Mean age of women having their first birth: 29.9 years-old.<ref name="bilan_2008">{{cite web |title=Bilan démographique 2008 |url=http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/document.asp?ref_id=IP1220&reg_id=0 |access-date=13 January 2009 |website=[[INSEE]] |publisher=[[Cabinet of France|Government of France]] |language=fr}}</ref>

The table below gives the average number of children according to the place of birth of women. An immigrant woman is a woman who was born outside France and who did not have French citizenship at birth.<ref>{{cite web |title=INED – Population et Société – La fécondité des immigrées, nouvelles données, nouvelle approche (Avril 2004) |url=http://www.ined.fr/fichier/t_publication/540/publi_pdf1_pop_et_soc_francais_400.pdf |access-date=1 September 2017 |website=Ined.fr}}</ref>

In 2021 there was 11.8 births/1,000 population. Total fertility rate (2020 data by [[Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (France)|INSEE]]<ref name="TFR_2020_INSEE" />) 1.83 children born/woman.

;Mother's mean age at first birth<ref>{{cite web |title=Un premier enfant à 28,5 ans en 2015 : 4,5 ans plus tard qu'en 1974 |url=https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2668280 |access-date=5 May 2020 |publisher=[[Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (France)|INSEE]] |language=fr}}</ref>
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:28.5 years (2015)

[[File:Baby on Tiptoes.jpg|thumb|190px|At 1.83 children born per woman,<ref name="TFR_2020_INSEE" /> France has the highest [[total fertility rate]] in the [[European Union]] (as of 2020)]]

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
!
!Fertlity rate in 2014<ref>https://www.ined.fr/fichier/s_rubrique/29430/population.et.societes.568.2019.fecondite.immigrees.fr.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>
!Average number of children in France<br />(1991–1998)
!Average number of children in country of origin<br />(1990–1999)
|-
|All women living in [[metropolitan France]]
|1,99
|1.74
|
|-
|Women born in Metropolitan France
|1,88
|1.70
|
|-
|Immigrant women
|2,75
|2.16
|
|-
|Women born in [[overseas France]]
|
|1.86
|
|-
|'''Immigrant women (country of birth)'''
|
|
|-
|Spain
|1,81
|1.52
|1.23
|-
|Italy
|1,81
|1.60
|1.24
|-
|Portugal
|2,02
|1.96
|1.49
|-
|Other EU
|
|1.66
|1.44
|-
|Turkey
|3,12
|3.21
|2.16
|-
|Other Europe
|2,22
|1.68
|1.41
|-
|Algeria
|3,69
|2.57
|1.78
|-
|Morocco
|3,47
|2.97
|3.28
|-
|Tunisia
|3,50
|2.90
|2.73
|-
|Other Africa
|2,91
|2.86
|5.89
|-
|Asia (mostly China)
|2,11
|1.77
|2.85
|-
|The Americas and Oceania
|2,23
|2.00
|2.54
|}

==== Total fertility rate in the 19th century ====
The [[total fertility rate]] is the number of children born per woman. It is based on fairly good data for the entire period. Sources: [[Our World In Data]] and [[Gapminder Foundation]].<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />

{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
! Years !! 1800!!1801!!1802!!1803!!1804!!1805!!1806!!1807!!1808!!1809!!1810<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[Total Fertility Rate]] in [[Metropolitan France]]|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.41|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.36|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.31|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.26|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.21|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.16|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.1|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.05|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.95|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.9
|}
{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
! Years !! 1860!!1861!!1862!!1863!!1864!!1865!!1866!!1867!!1868!!1869!!1870<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|Total Fertility Rate in Metropolitan France|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.4|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.51|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.46|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.53|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.51|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.53|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.53|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.55|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.49|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.49|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.44
|}
{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
! Years !! 1871!!1872!!1873!!1874!!1875!!1876!!1877!!1878!!1879!!1880<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|Total Fertility Rate in Metropolitan France|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.08|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.59|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.51|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.53|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.51|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.57|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.49|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.44|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.44|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.36
|}
{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
! Years !! 1881!!1882!!1883!!1884!!1885!!1886!!1887!!1888!!1889!!1890<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|Total Fertility Rate in Metropolitan France|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.4|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.4|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.38|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.38|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.32|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.26|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.22|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.16|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.12|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |2.95
|}
{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
! Years !! 1891!!1892!!1893!!1894!!1895!!1896!!1897!!1898!!1899<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|Total Fertility Rate in Metropolitan France|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.03|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |2.96|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.02|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |2.94|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |2.86|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |2.98|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |2.92|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |2.87|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |2.88
|}

==== Births by country of birth of the parents ====
About 22% of newborns in France between 2006 and 2008 had at least one foreign-born grandparent (9% born in another European country, 8% born in the Maghreb and 2% born in another region of the world).<ref name="ReferenceC" />

As of 2022, 32.4% of newborns in France had at least one foreign-born parent and 28.5% had at least one parent born outside of Europe (EU 28) (parents born in overseas territories are considered as born in France).<ref name="ReferenceA" /><ref name="autogenerated3" />

The table below gives the number of children born in metropolitan France according to the place of birth of both parents.

{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|-
! rowspan="3" |Birth country of parents
! colspan="19" |Years
|-
!1998
!1999
!2000
!2001
!2002
!2003
!2004
!2005
!2006
!2007
!2008
!2009
! colspan="2" |2010
!2011
!2012
!2013
! colspan="2" |2014
|- style="background:#f0f0f0;"
! Number
! Number
! Number
! Number
! Number
! Number
! Number
! Number
! Number
! Number
! Number
! Number
! Number
! %
! Number
! Number
! Number
! Number
! %
|-
| '''Both parents born in France'''||566 447 ||576 537 ||601 268 ||595 286 ||580 999 ||575 985 ||574 687 ||575 659 ||590 163 ||579 515 ||585 427 ||578 052 ||583 600 ||72.7%||604 077||598 473||583 864||579 106||70.75%
|-
| '''One parent born in France, other foreign-born''' ||101 511 ||98 687 ||101 498 ||102 013 ||103 930 ||106 677 ||110 258 ||114 090 ||119 159 ||119 587 ||121 845 ||125 058 ||129 025 ||16.1%||119 114||119 957||119 643||123 855||15.13%
|-
| Father born in EU28, mother born in France||13 194 ||12 858 ||13 060 ||12 447 ||11 732 ||11 442 ||10 811 ||10 667 ||10 455 ||10 188 ||9 975 ||9 526 ||9 549 ||1.2%||9 961||9 637||9 414||9 235||1.13%
|-
| Father not born in EU28, mother born in France||44 891 ||43 807 ||45 612 ||46 459 ||47 695 ||49 790 ||52 244 ||54 176 ||56 886 ||56 626 ||57 955 ||60 362 ||62 478 ||7.8%||55 209||55 488||55 397||56 370||6.89%
|-
| Father born in France, mother born in EU28 ||13 020 ||12 647 ||12 411 ||11 881 ||11 439 ||11 119 ||10 930 ||10 827 ||10 794 ||10 575 ||10 562 ||10 585 ||10 418 ||1.3%||10 104||9 761||9 772||10 058||1.23%
|-
| Father born in France, mother not born in EU28||30 406 ||29 375 ||30 415 ||31 226 ||33 064 ||34 326 ||36 273 ||38 420 ||41 024 ||42 198 ||43 353 ||44 585 ||46 580 ||5.8%||43 840||45 071||45 060||48 192||5.89%
|-
| '''Both parents foreign-born''' ||70 122 ||69 567 ||72 016 ||73 646 ||76 701 ||78 802 ||82 871 ||84 606 ||87 574 ||86 883 ||88 772 ||90 310 ||89 599 ||11.2%||100 203||102 617||108 003||115 604||14.12%
|-
| Both parents born in EU28||6 681 ||6 157 ||5 780 ||5 524 ||5 159 ||5 369 ||5 426 ||5 372 ||5 778 ||5 891 ||6 276 ||6 442 ||6 694 ||0.8%||7 798||8 419||8 884||9 726||1.19%
|-
| Both parents not born in EU28||60 281 ||60 636 ||63 299 ||65 406 ||68 788 ||70 552 ||74 537 ||76 348 ||78 700 ||78 020 ||79 405 ||80 641 ||79 698 ||9.9%||89 163||91 049||95 721||102 319||12.50%
|-
| Father born in EU27, mother not born in EU28||1 188 ||1 047 ||1 116 ||1 035 ||1 038 ||1 075 ||1 150 ||1 100 ||1 256 ||1 190 ||1 226 ||1 268 ||1 258 ||0.2%||1 469||1 436||1 494||1 554||0.19%
|-
| Father not born in EU27, Mother born in EU28||1 972 ||1 727 ||1 821 ||1 681 ||1 716 ||1 806 ||1 758 ||1 786 ||1 840 ||1 782 ||1 865 ||1 959 ||1 949 ||0.2%||1 773||1 713||1 904||2 005||0.24%
|-
| '''Total of newborns'''||738 080 ||744 791 ||774 782 ||770 945 ||761 630 ||761 464 ||767 816 ||774 355 ||796 896 ||785 985 ||796 044 ||793 420 ||802 224 ||100%||823 394||821 047||811 510||818 565||100%
|}

==== Births by citizenship of the parents ====
As of 2022, 74.0% of newborns in France had two parents with French citizenship, 14.4% had one French parent, and 11.5% had two non-French parents.<ref name="ReferenceA" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Insee − Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - Insee |url=https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2381382#graphique-figure1 |access-date=1 September 2017 |website=Insee.fr}}</ref>

The table below gives the number of children born in metropolitan France according to the citizenship of both parents.

{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|-
! rowspan="3" |Citizenship of parents
! colspan="19" |Year
|-
!1998
!1999
! colspan="2" |2000
!2001
!2002
!2003
!2004
!2005
!2006
!2007
!2008
!2009
! colspan="2" |2010
!2011
!2012
!2013
!2014
|- style="background:#f0f0f0;"
! Number
! Number
! Number
! %
! Number
! Number
! Number
! Number
! Number
! Number
! Number
! Number
! Number
! Number
! %
! Number
! Number
! Number
! Number
|-
| '''Both French parents'''||630 995 ||633 788 ||657 576 ||84.9% ||648 506 ||633 294 ||629 014 ||628 062 ||630 481 ||645 879 ||635 082 ||640 596 ||634 153 ||642 816||80.1%||659 834||651 577||638 576||634 027
|-
| '''One French parent, other non-French'''||57 897 ||61 577 ||66 636 ||8.6% ||69 954 ||74 590 ||78 318 ||84 013 ||88 965 ||94 888 ||96 314 ||100 464 ||103 704 ||106 622||13.3%||105 767||108 905||109 809||115 647
|-
| French mother, father with European citizenship (EU28)||9 146 ||9 175 ||9 554 ||1.2% ||9 397 ||8 866 ||9 019 ||8 749 ||8 503 ||8 571 ||8 509 ||8 349 ||8 197 ||8 829||1.1%||8 300||8 270||8 120||8 019
|-
| French mother, father with non-European citizenship (EU28)||25 117 ||26 720 ||29 592 ||3.8% ||31 463||33 820 ||35 756||38 923 ||41 061 ||43 698 ||43 603 ||45 579 ||46 753||46 456||5.8%||44 600||45 599||45 866||47 184
|-
| French father, mother with European citizenship (EU28)||7 535 ||7 551||7 409 ||1.0% ||7 235 ||7 359 ||7 097 ||7 172 ||7 324 ||7 395 ||7 420 ||7 642 ||7 862 ||7 874||1.0%||7 856||7 747||7 901||8 162
|-
| French father, mother with non-European citizenship (EU28)||16 099 ||18 131 ||20 081 ||2.6% ||21 859 ||24 545 ||26 446 ||29 169 ||32 077 ||35 224 ||36 782 ||38 894 ||40 892 ||43 463||5.4%||45 011||47 289||47 922||52 282
|-
| '''Both non-French parents'''||49 188 ||49 426 ||50 570 ||6.5% ||52 485 ||53 746 ||54 132 ||55 741 ||54 909 ||56 129 ||54 589 ||54 984 ||55 563 ||52 786||6.6%||57 793||60 565||63 125||68 891
|-
| Both parents with European citizenship (EU28)||6 715 ||6 359 ||6 166 ||0.8% ||5 808 ||5 507 ||5 589||5 670 ||5 667 ||6 085 ||6 214 ||6 623 ||6 803 ||6 958||0.9%||7 895||8 556||9 176||10 217
|-
| Both parents with non-European citizenship (EU28)||41 268 ||41 845 ||42 985 ||5.5% ||45 265 ||46 807 ||46 921 ||48 364 ||47 440 ||48 091 ||46 301 ||46 167 ||46 435 ||43 454||5.4%||47 419||49 262||50 860||55 056
|-
| Father with European citizenship (EU28), mother with non-European citizenship (EU28)||440 ||502 ||565 ||0.1% ||589 ||571 ||685 ||733 ||797 ||937 ||967 ||1 062 ||1 141 ||1 235||0.2%||1 400||1 555||1 700||2 091
|-
| Father with non-European citizenship (EU28), mother with European citizenship (EU28)||765 ||720 ||854 ||0.1% ||823 ||861 ||937 ||974 ||1 005 ||1 016 ||1 107 ||1 132 ||1 184 ||1 139||0.2%||1 079||1 192||1 389||1 527
|-
| '''Total of newborns'''||738 080 ||744 791 ||774 782 ||100% ||770 945 ||761 630 ||761 464 ||767 816 ||774 355 ||796 896 ||785 985 ||796 044 ||793 420 ||802 224 ||100%||823 394||821 047||811 510||818 565
|}