This confirms a demographic trend observed in France for several years.
"The dynamic is weakening,
" notes INSEE, as part of a study published on Tuesday, covering the period 2013-2018.
During these years, the average population growth was only 0.4% per year - or 233,600 additional inhabitants, the equivalent of the municipality of Lille -, against 0.5% over the previous five years. , and 0.7% between 1999 and 2007. The French population (66,733,000 people on January 1, 2018) therefore continues to increase, but less rapidly.
With the exception of Guyana, Île-de-France and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the “natural balance” (the difference between births and deaths) is deteriorating in all regions.
"It reached its lowest level since 1945,"
notes the Institute of Statistics.
This decrease can be explained by the greater number of deaths of the aging baby boom population and by the decrease in the number of births.
The surplus
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