Demographics of Paris
| 2011 Census Paris Region | |
|---|---|
| Country/territory of birth | Population |
 Metropolitan France
|
9,112,301 |
 Algeria
|
285,703 |
 Portugal
|
240,445 |
 Morocco
|
224,787 |
 Tunisia
|
107,549 |
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|
80,265 |
 Martinique
|
74,565 |
 Turkey
|
68,703 |
 China
|
59,734 |
 Italy
|
55,443 |
 Mali
|
54,525 |
 Spain
|
46,486 |
 Côte d'Ivoire
|
45,870 |
 Senegal
|
44,356 |
 Democratic Republic of Congo
|
41,497 |
 Poland
|
39,307 |
 Cameroon
|
36,538 |
 Vietnam
|
36,008 |
 Romania
|
35,495 |
 Sri Lanka
|
34,702 |
 Republic of the Congo
|
32,718 |
 Cambodia
|
32,270 |
 Haiti
|
32,017 |
 Réunion
|
30,824 |
 Serbia
|
27,373 |
 Germany
|
23,334 |
 India
|
23,232 |
 Lebanon
|
19,769 |
 Mauritius
|
19,646 |
 United Kingdom
|
19,583 |
 Madagascar
|
17,723 |
 United States
|
17,596 |
 Russia
|
15,483 |
 Pakistan
|
15,312 |
 Belgium
|
15,146 |
 Other countries and territories |
785,821 |
The city of Paris (also called the Commune or Department of Paris) had a population of 2,241,346 people within its administrative city limits as of January 1, 2014. It is surrounded by the Paris unité urbaine, or urban area, the most populous urban area in the European Union. In 2011 the unité urbaine had a population of 10,516,110. The Paris Region, or Île-de-France covers 12,012 square kilometers (4,638 square miles), and has its own regional council and president. It has a population of 12,005,077 as of January 2014, or 18.2 percent of the population of France.
The population of the city of Paris reached a historic high of 2,900,000 in 1921 but then declined; between 1954-99 it declined at every census, falling to 2,147,857 in 1999, but after that it began to climb again, reaching 2,234,000 by 2009.
The city's population loss reflected the experience of most other core cities in the developed world that have not expanded their boundaries. The principal factors in the process were a significant decline in household size, and a dramatic migration of residents to the suburbs between 1962-75. Factors in the migration included deindustrialisation, higher rents, the gentrification of many inner quarters, the transformation of living space into offices, and greater affluence among working families. The city's population loss was one of the most severe among international municipalities and the largest for any that had achieved more than 2,000,000 residents. Since then, an influx of younger residents and immigrants has contributed to the growth of the city.
According to Eurostat, the EU statistical agency, in 2012 the Commune of Paris was the most densely populated city in the European Union, with 21,616 people per square kilometre within the city limits (the NUTS-3 statistical area), ahead of Inner London West, which had 10,374 persons per square kilometre. According to the same census, three departments bordering Paris, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne, had population densities of over ten thousand persons per square kilometre, ranking among the ten most densely populated areas of the EU.
Paris is one of the most densely populated cities in the world. Its density, excluding the outlying woodland parks of Boulogne and Vincennes, was 24,448 inhabitants per square kilometre (63,320/sq mi) in the 1999 official census, which could be compared only with some Asian megapolises and the New York City borough of Manhattan. Even including the two woodland areas, its population density was 20,169/km2 (52,240/sq mi), the fifth-most-densely populated commune in France after Le Pré-Saint-Gervais, Vincennes, Levallois-Perret, and Saint-Mandé—all of which border the city proper.
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