Editing Amiens (section)

===Demography===
The inhabitants of Amiens are called the ''Amiénois''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.habitants.fr/|title=Nom des habitants des communes françaises|work=habitants.fr of Lionel Delvarre}}</ref> and their [[blason populaire]] is ''Chés maqueux d'gueugues'' (the eaters of nuts).

The population of Amiens has risen sharply since the mid-19th century: Its population doubled between 1850 and 1960, from 50,000 to 100,000 inhabitants, i.e. a gain of 50,000 people over this period of 110 years, and gaining about 30,000 others since (over 50 years only this time).

====Demographic evolution====
In 2017, the commune had 134,057 inhabitants.<ref name=pophis>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-80021#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE</ref>
{{Historical populations
|align=none
|cols=3
|graph-pos = bottom
|footnote = From 1962 to 1999: Population without double counting; for the years following: municipal population.
|source   = Ldh/[[School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences|EHESS]]/Cassini until 1999<ref>{{Cassini-Ehess|659|Amiens}}</ref> and [[Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques|INSEE]] (1968-2017)<ref name=pophis/>
|1793|40000
|1800|41279
|1806|39853
|1821|41107
|1831|45001
|1836|46129
|1841|47117
|1846|49591
|1851|52149
|1856|56587
|1861|58780
|1866|61063
|1872|63747
|1876|66896
|1881|74170
|1886|80288
|1891|83654
|1896|88731
|1901|90758
|1906|90920
|1911|93207
|1921|92780
|1926|91576
|1931|90211
|1936|93773
|1946|84761
|1954|92506
|1962|105433
|1968|117888
|1975|131476
|1982|131332
|1990|131872
|1999|135501
|2007|134737
|2012|132727
|2017|134057
}}

====Age structure====
Amiens is distinguished by the youthfulness of its population. In 2017, more than 25% of the population of the city was less than 20 years old. The rate of people of an age over 60 years (19.3%) is also lower than the national rate (25.5%) and the departmental rate (25.4%). Like national and departmental allocations, the female population of the municipality is greater in number to the male population, with a rate of 52.5%, whereas the national rate is 51.6%.

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{{Data bars
| title = Population by age of Somme, 2017 (%)
| scale = 8 | style = 2
| source = INSEE<ref>{{cite web
 |url          = https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=DEP-80
 |title        = Évolution et structure de la population
 |work         = INSEE
 |access-date  = 2 September 2020
 |df           = dmy-all
}}</ref>
| columns = 7   | 90+| 75–89| 60–74| 45–59| 30–44| 15–29| 0–14
| blue|  male| 0.6/2| 6.2/2| 16.2/2| 20.0/2| 18.5/2| 19.5/2| 19.0/2
| red | female| 1.6/2| 9.3/2| 16.9/2| 19.3/2| 17.8/2| 18.1/2| 17.0/2
}}
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{{Data bars
| title = Population by age of Amiens, 2017 (%)
| scale = 8 | style = 2
| source = INSEE <ref name=pophis/>
| columns = 7   | 90+| 75–95| 60–74| 45–59| 30–44| 15–29| 0–14
| blue|  male | 0.5/2| 4.6/2| 11.2/2| 15.9/2| 19.0/2| 29.6/2| 19.2/2
| red | female| 1.5/2| 7.4/2| 13.0/2| 16.8/2| 17.8/2| 27.7/2| 15.8/2
}}
|}