Editing Languedoc-Roussillon (section)

== Population ==
The region is experiencing the strongest demographic growth in France, and could have around 3,300,000 inhabitants by 2030,<ref>{{Cite web |year=2007 |title=Projections de population l'horizon 2030en Languedoc-Roussillon |url=https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/1285945/chi0712.pdf |access-date=2022-04-06 |website=[[INSEE]]}}</ref> an increase of 36% compared to 2000. This increase is mainly due to [[internal migration]], natural increase being rather low.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Degorre |first1=Arnaud |last2=Redor |first2=Patrick |year=2007 |title=Enquêtes annuelles de recensement de 2004 à 2006 |url=http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/ipweb/ip1116/ip1116.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019025124/http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/ipweb/ip1116/ip1116.pdf |archive-date=19 October 2012 |access-date=2022-04-06 |website=[[INSEE]] }}</ref>

[[Pyrénées-Orientales]] has the largest proportion of elderly people (12.10% over 75). [[Gard]] and [[Hérault]] are the "youngest" departments, but they are destined to "age" considerably in the coming years. By 2020, the number of people aged over 75 is expected to increase by 12% across the region.

=== Religion ===
[[Catholic Church|Catholicism]] is the most represented religion in the region, particularly at the level of historical monuments and associations.{{Cn|date=April 2022}} The Ecclesiastical Province of Montpellier ({{Langx|fr|Province ecclésiastique de Montpellier}}) corresponds to the administrative region. The region has 16 cathedrals ([[Agde Cathedral|Agde]], [[Alès Cathedral|Alès]], [[Alet Cathedral|Alet]], [[Béziers Cathedral|Béziers]], [[Carcassonne Cathedral|Carcassonne]], [[Elne Cathedral|Elne]], [[Lodève Cathedral|Lodève]], [[Maguelone Cathedral|Maguelone]], [[Mende Cathedral|Mende]], [[Montpellier Cathedral|Montpellier]], [[Narbonne Cathedral|Narbonne]], [[Nîmes Cathedral|Nîmes]], [[Perpignan Cathedral|Perpignan]], [[Saint-Papoul Cathedral|Saint-Papoul]], [[Saint-Pons-de-Thomières Cathedral|Saint-Pons-de-Thomières]], [[Uzès Cathedral|Uzès]]).

[[Protestantism]] is well represented in the region, especially in the [[Huguenots|Huguenot]] stronghold of the [[Cévennes]]. The ''Cévennes-Languedoc-Roussillon region'' of the [[United Protestant Church of France|United Protestant Church]] includes [[Gard]], [[Lozère]], [[Hérault]], [[Aude]], [[Pyrénées-Orientales]] as well as the eastern part of [[Aveyron]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Histoire du protestantisme à Nîmes et dans le Gard |url=https://www.eglise-protestante-unie.fr/region-cevennes-languedoc-roussillon-r3/fiche/histoire-du-protestantisme-a-nimes-et-dans-le-gard-9466 |access-date=2022-04-06 |website=Eglise protestante unie de France |language=fr}}</ref> It is an important region by its Protestant population (approximately 20,000 homes), but one of the least extensive of the United Protestant Church of France.<ref name=":4" /> In addition to this majority church, the region has since the <abbr>19th</abbr> century a variety of [[Free church|Free]], [[Calvinism|Reformed Evangelical]], [[Baptists|Baptist]], [[Methodism|Methodist]] and <abbr>[[Pentecostalism|Pentecostal]]</abbr> churches.

[[Judaism]] has been present since the [[Middle Ages]] with significant communities fleeing the [[Almohad Caliphate|Almohads]], in Narbonne and Béziers.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Abitbol |first=Michel |url=https://www.cairn.info/histoire-des-juifs-de-la-genese-a-nos-jours--9782262042806-page-138.htm |title=Histoire des Juifs |year=2013 |location=Paris |pages=138 |language=fr |chapter=6 - Les premiers pas du judaïsme ashkénaze |access-date=2022-04-06 |url-access=subscription |via=[[Cairn.info]]}}</ref> The Jews are thus cited in the will of [[William V of Montpellier]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Les établissements juifs de Montpellier au Moyen Âge |url=https://www.culture.gouv.fr/Regions/Drac-Occitanie/Ressources-documentaires/Publications/Collection-DUO/Les-etablissements-juifs-de-Montpellier-au-Moyen-Age |access-date=2022-04-06 |website=www.culture.gouv.fr |language=fr}}</ref> [[Islam]] is also present at the same time.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Jomier |first=Jacques |date=1983 |title=Note sur les stèles funéraires arabes de Montpellier |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/cafan_0575-061x_1983_act_18_1_1318 |journal=Cahiers de Fanjeaux |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=62–63 |doi=10.3406/cafan.1983.1318 |s2cid=192958122 |via=[[Persée (web portal)|Persée]]}}</ref>

[[Catharism]] appeared in the region in the middle of the 12th century, in Aude.