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France: Population
All residents regardless of legal status or citizenship, mid-year estimate.
Data status: CurrentThe latest figures we have collected are for 2025. 2026 is not overdue until March 27, 2028, a generous allowance for a annual series until we have timed this source’s releases.
Official statisticSource figures as of October 8, 2026Sources & methods
- Sources
- World Bank
- Period covered
- 1960 – 2025
- Source figures as of
- October 8, 2026
- Geography
- France
- Sector
- Whole economy (not a single sector)
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable
- Transformations
- Views other than the level (changes, averages, volatility) are calculated by CK Economics from these figures
- Revisions
- Replaced with the source’s latest figures whenever it revises them.
- Data status
- Current
Key figures
CK estimatePeople · calculated by CK Economics from World Bank data
- Latest · 2025
- 68,720,337
- +0.2% vs a year earlier1
- 5-year change
- +1.7%
- since 2020, +0.3% a year2
- 10-year change
- +3.3%
- since 2015, +0.3% a year2
- Record high
- 68,720,337
- 20253
- Record low
- 47,412,964
- 19603
- Where the latest ranks
- 100th pct.
- Higher than 100% of the other 65 observations since 19604
- 1Latest observation against the observation one year earlier (for weekly data, the nearest within three days).
- 2Latest observation against the observation five and ten years earlier; the yearly rate is the compound annual growth rate over the span.
- 3Highest and lowest published observations across the full history shown.
- 4Share of the other published observations that are lower than the latest one, rounded down.
Methodology
All residents regardless of legal status or citizenship, mid-year estimate. Compiled by the World Bank from national statistical offices and international agencies; some series (labour force participation) are ILO modelled estimates. Source series SP.POP.TOTL. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators (WDI 2026-10-08). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=FRA
All data
| Period | Value | Change y/y |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68,720,337 | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 68,551,653 | +0.3% |
| 2023 | 68,372,286 | +0.3% |
| 2022 | 68,184,457 | +0.5% |
| 2021 | 67,842,811 | +0.4% |
| 2020 | 67,601,110 | +0.3% |
| 2019 | 67,382,061 | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 67,158,348 | +0.4% |
| 2017 | 66,918,020 | +0.3% |
| 2016 | 66,724,104 | +0.3% |
| 2015 | 66,548,272 | +0.4% |
| 2014 | 66,312,067 | +0.5% |
| 2013 | 65,997,932 | +0.5% |
| 2012 | 65,657,659 | +0.5% |
| 2011 | 65,340,830 | +0.5% |
| 2010 | 65,026,211 | +0.5% |
| 2009 | 64,706,436 | +0.5% |
| 2008 | 64,375,116 | +0.6% |
| 2007 | 64,016,890 | +0.6% |
| 2006 | 63,622,342 | +0.7% |
| 2005 | 63,180,854 | +0.8% |
| 2004 | 62,707,588 | +0.7% |
| 2003 | 62,249,855 | +0.7% |
| 2002 | 61,812,142 | +0.7% |