Two hundred pages of summaries and graphs... At a time when the executive announces that it wants to slice up its future immigration law, the latest panorama from the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Insee) on "immigrants
and descendants of immigrants in France”
aims to deliver
“objective information to fuel the debate”
.
The government statisticians have stopped their accounts at 2021 (the year 2022 would only accentuate the trends anyway).
Here is what this document contains in particular:
Nearly 7 million immigrants are officially registered
The total population in France in 2021 was 67.6 million.
Within this group, the share of immigrants (people born abroad and residing on the territory) represented 10.3%, or 6.9 million individuals.
This proportion was 6.5% in 1968 and
“around 7.4% from 1975 to the end of the 1990s”
.
A stabilization then linked to the slowdown in labor immigration
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