Editing Tahiti (section)

== Demographics ==
{{Further|Tahitians}}

The indigenous Tahitians are of Polynesian ancestry and make up 70% of the population alongside Europeans, East Asians (mostly [[Han Chinese|Chinese]]), and people of mixed heritage, sometimes referred to as ''Demis''.
[[File:Districts de Tahiti.png|thumb|upright=1.78]]

The places of birth of the 189,517 residents of the island of Tahiti at the 2017 census were the following:<ref name=migrations>{{cite web |url=http://ispf.pf/bases/Recensements/2017/Donnees_detaillees/Migrations.aspx |title=Recensement 2017 – Données détaillées - Migrations |author=Institut Statistique de Polynésie Française (ISPF) |access-date=2019-04-07 |language=fr |archive-date=7 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407144337/http://ispf.pf/bases/Recensements/2017/Donnees_detaillees/Migrations.aspx |url-status=live}}</ref>
*75.4% were born in Tahiti (up from 71.5% at the 2007 census)
*9.3% in [[Metropolitan France]] (down from 10.9% in 2007)
*5.9% elsewhere in the [[Society Islands]] (down from 6.4% in 2007)
*2.8% in the [[Îles Tuamotu-Gambier|Tuamotu-Gambier]] (down from 3.3% in 2007)
*1.8% in the [[Marquesas Islands]] (down from 2.0% in 2007)
*1.6% in the [[Austral Islands]] (down from 2.0% in 2007)
*1.3% in the [[overseas departments and territories of France]] other than French Polynesia (1.0% in [[New Caledonia]] and [[Wallis and Futuna]]; 0.3% in the other overseas departments and collectivities) (down from 1.6% in 2007)
*0.5% in [[East Asia|East]] and [[Southeast Asia]] (same percentage as in 2007)
*0.3% in [[North Africa]] (most of them [[Pied-Noir|Pieds-Noirs]]) (down from 0.4% in 2007)
*1.1% in other foreign countries (down from 1.5% in 2007)

Most people from [[metropolitan France]] live in Pape{{okina}}ete and its suburbs, notably [[Punaauia|Puna{{okina}}auia]], where they made up 16.8% of the population at the 2017 census, and [[Arue, French Polynesia|Arue]], where they made up 15.9%; these percentages do not include their children born in French Polynesia.<ref name=migrations />

=== Historical population ===

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! 1767 !! 1797 !! 1848 !! 1897 !! 1911 !! 1921 !! 1926 !! 1931 !! 1936 !! 1941 !! 1951
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| style="text-align:center"| 50,000<ref name=pre-census>{{cite journal |author=Robert C. Schmitt |journal=Land Economics |volume=38 |issue=1 |year=1962 |pages=71–75 |title=Urbanization in French Polynesia |jstor=3144728 |doi=10.2307/3144728}}</ref> to<br />200,000<ref>Marauh Ta{{okina}}aroa and Henry Adams (1901) [http://www.pseudopodium.org/repress/tahiti/01.html Memoirs of Arii Taimai. Ch. I] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206002114/http://www.pseudopodium.org/repress/tahiti/01.html |date=6 December 2010}}. Pseudopodium.org. Retrieved 26 July 2013.</ref> || style="text-align:center"| 16,000<ref name=pre-census /> || style="text-align:center"| 8,600 || style="text-align:center"| 10,750 || style="text-align:center"| 11,800 || style="text-align:center"| 11,700 || style="text-align:center"| 14,200 || style="text-align:center"| 16,800 || style="text-align:center"| 19,000 || style="text-align:center"| 23,100 || style="text-align:center"| 30,500
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! 1956 !! 1962 !!1971 !! 1977 !! 1983 !! 1988 !! 1996 !! 2002 !! 2007 !! 2012 !! 2017 !! 2022
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| style="text-align:center"| 38,140 || style="text-align:center"| 45,430 || style="text-align:center"| 79,494 || style="text-align:center"| 95,604 || style="text-align:center"| 115,820 || style="text-align:center"| 131,309 || style="text-align:center"| 150,721 || style="text-align:center"| 169,674 || style="text-align:center"| 178,133 || style="text-align:center"| 183,645 || style="text-align:center"| 189,517 || style="text-align:center"| 191,779 
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| colspan="13" style="text-align:center;"| <small>Official figures from past censuses.</small><ref name=pop2017 /><ref name=pop2012>{{cite web |url=http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/detail.asp?ref_id=populegalescom&page=recensement/populegalescom/popcomseupolynesie.htm |title=Population des communes de Polynésie française |publisher=INSEE |access-date=13 October 2013 |archive-date=19 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919080644/http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/detail.asp?ref_id=populegalescom |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/detail.asp?ref_id=populegalescom&page=recensement/populegalescom/2007/popcomseupolynesie.htm |title=Population des communes de Polynésie française au RP 2007 |publisher=INSEE |access-date=13 October 2013 |archive-date=19 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919080644/http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/detail.asp?ref_id=populegalescom |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ispf.pf/Libraries/RP2002/retro1.sflb.ashx |title=Population statistique des communes et communes associées aux recensements de 1971 à 2002 |publisher=ISPF |access-date=13 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121218221151/http://www.ispf.pf/Libraries/RP2002/retro1.sflb.ashx |archive-date=18 December 2012 |df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.persee.fr/web/guest/home|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120909045309/http://www.persee.fr/web/guest/home|url-status=dead|title=Persée : Portail de revues en sciences humaines et sociales|date=9 September 2012|archive-date=9 September 2012|website=persee.fr}}</ref><ref>[[La Grande Encyclopédie]] for the 1897 census</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070605065718/http://membres.lycos.fr/hmsbounty/francais/prot_tahiti.htm 1848 census]. lycos.fr</ref>
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