Editing Wallis and Futuna (section)

===Population===
{{Main|Demographics of Wallis and Futuna}}
[[File:Taoa (Futuna).jpg|right|thumb|[[Futuna (Wallis and Futuna)|Futuna Island]]]]
[[File:Sérénité - plage d'Alofi (Wallis et Futuna).jpg|right|thumb|[[Alofi Island]]]]
The total population of the territory at the July 2023 census was 11,151 (72.5% on the island of Wallis, 27.5% on the island of Futuna),<ref name=census_2023>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wallis-et-futuna.gouv.fr/Actualites/Les-chiffres-INSEE-du-recensement-2023-authentifies-sont-parus|title = Résultats du recensement de la population 2023 de Wallis-et-Futuna  |language=fr |publisher=Préfet des îles Wallis et Futuna |access-date=2024-01-17 }}</ref> down from 14,944 at the July 2003 census.<ref name=past_censuses>{{cite web |url=https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/1281314 |title=Wallis et Futuna a perdu près du cinquième de sa population en dix ans |author=INSEE |access-date=2019-04-07 |language=fr}}</ref> The vast majority of the population are of [[Polynesian people|Polynesian]] ethnicity, with a small minority who were born in [[Metropolitan France]] or are of French European descent.

Lack of economic opportunities has, since the 1950s, been impelling many young Wallisians and Futunians to migrate to the more prosperous French territory of [[New Caledonia]], where, as French citizens, they are legally entitled to settle and work. Since the mid-2000s, emigration has surged in response to political tensions on the main island of Wallis (Uvea), that have arisen from a feud between rival aristocratic clans, who are supporting competing kings. Emigrants have begun settling, not only in New Caledonia, but also much farther away, in Metropolitan France. At the 2019 New Caledonian census, 22,520 residents of New Caledonia (whether born in New Caledonia or in Wallis and Futuna) reported their ethnicity as "Wallisian and Futunian".<ref name="Population Structure of Communities">{{cite web |url=https://www.isee.nc/component/phocadownload/category/278-donnees?download=874:structure-de-la-population-des-communautes |title=Population Structure of Communities |publisher=[[Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies]] (ISEE-NC) |place=Nouméa |access-date=29 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191113144638/http://www.isee.nc/component/phocadownload/category/278-donnees?download=874:structure-de-la-population-des-communautes |archive-date=13 November 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> This is almost double the total population of Wallis and Futuna.

====Historical population====
{| align="center" class="wikitable"
! 1969 !! 1976 !! 1983 !! 1990 !! 1996 !! 2003 !! 2008 !! 2013 !! 2018 !! 2023
|-
| align=center| 8,546 || align=center| 9,192 || align=center| 12,408 || align=center| 13,705 || align=center| 14,166 || align=center| 14,944|| align=center| 13,484|| align=center|12,197 || align=center|11,558 || align=center|11,151
|-
| colspan=13 align=center| <small>Official figures from past censuses.</small><ref name="past_censuses"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2121453 |title=Wallis et Futuna - Recensement de la population |author=INSEE|access-date=2019-04-07}}</ref><ref name=census_2023/>
|}