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Has Paris lost 120,000 inhabitants in ten years thanks to "dedensification"?

2023-02-20T10:19:14.220Z


THE VERIFICATION – Faced with the figures for the drop in the number of inhabitants of the capital, Anne Hidalgo was delighted with this “densification” of the city.


We don't know if the Parisian is an endangered species, but one thing is certain: we find fewer and fewer of them.

In fact, after a small demographic increase between 1999 and 2013, the capital is again losing inhabitants, just over 12,000 per year for ten years, and therefore nearly 120,000 in ten years - around 5% of its population, after the census figures compiled by INSEE.

Guest of the France Info morning show on February 7, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, was particularly confronted with this figure, which she refused to interpret as bad news - and even less as a disavowal of her policy. municipal.

According to her, it is in particular the fruit of a company of "dedensification".

Read alsoAnne Hidalgo welcomes the "dedensification" of Paris, which has lost 120,000 fewer inhabitants in ten years

Parisian demography since 1936. INSEE

During her interview, conducted by Salhia Brakhlia and Marc Fauvelle, Anne Hidalgo recalls that Paris is "one of the six densest cities in the world (...) with 20,500 inhabitants per square kilometer" then assures that "

dedensification of Paris is a necessity…

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Source: lefigaro

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