Editing Demographics of France (section)

=== After World War II ===
{{Historical populations
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|footnote = Source:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Population changes − Demographic balance sheet 2021 {{!}} Insee |url=https://www.insee.fr/en/statistiques/6040011?sommaire=6323335 |access-date=2023-08-05 |website=www.insee.fr}}</ref>
|1806 | 29107000
|1821 | 30462000
|1831 | 32569000
|1841 | 34230000
|1851 | 35783000
|1872 | 36103000
|1881 | 37672000
|1891 | 38343000
|1901 | 38962000
|1911 | 39605000
|1921 | 39108000
|1931 | 41524000
|1946 | 40125230
|1950 | 41647258
|1960 | 45464797
|1970 | 50528219
|1980 | 53731387
|1990 | 56577000
|2000 | 58858198
|2010 | 62765235
|2020 | 67287241
|2022 | 67813396
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France experienced a baby boom after 1945; it reversed a long-term record of low birth rates.{{r|huss1990}}<ref>Leslie King, "'France needs children'" ''Sociological Quarterly'' (1998) 39#1 pp: 33–52.</ref> The government's pro-natalist policy of the 1930s do not explain this sudden recovery, which was often portrayed inside France as a "miracle". It was also atypical of the Western world: although there was a [[post–World War II baby boom|baby boom]] in other Western countries after the war, the baby boom in France was much stronger, and lasted longer than in most other Western countries (the United States was one of the few exceptions). In the 1950s and 1960s, France's population grew at 1% per year: the highest growth in the history of France, higher even than the high growth rates of the 18th or 19th century.

Since 1975, France's population growth rate has significantly diminished, but it still remains slightly higher than that of the rest of Europe, and much faster than at the end of the 19th century and during the first half of the 20th century. In the first decade of the third millennium, population growth in France was the highest in Europe, matched only by that of the [[Republic of Ireland]], which has also historically undergone stagnant growth and even decline relative to the rest of Europe until recently. However, it is lower than that of the United States, largely because of the latter's higher [[net migration rate]].