The quarrel over statistics does not start today.
The issue of the link between immigration and demography really entered the public space in the mid-1980s.
“Will we still be French in 30 years?
»Asked himself in a
Le Figaro Magazine
of October 26, 1985, illustrated by a bust of Marianne veiled.
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Immigration: the great quarrel of statistics
The statistical predictions, calculated by Gérard-François Dumont, president of the Association for research and demographic information and commented by the writer Jean Raspail, author of the
Camp des saints
, a novel predicting the migratory submersion of Europe, announced that, in 2015,
"there will be 46,200,000 French nationals and 12,780,000 foreigners of non-European origin
" in France, ie 17% of the population.
These figures have turned out to be hazardous since, in 2015, there were 6.2 million immigrants (that is to say people born of foreign nationality abroad) or 9.3% of the population ( we are now at 6.8 or 10.2%).
However this figure
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