France

A Population Project
By: Alexis Williams

Population Statistics
Population Distribution

Population: 66.21 million

Area: 248,573 sq. miles
Population Density: 122.01 sq. km

Ethnicity Composition
Ethnicity and Race Pie

Population Pyramid

France is a developed MDC

because of its distinct
football shape pattern in the
Population Pyramid listed
above

Chart

Country Rates

Total Fertility Rate: 2.08

Infant Mortality Rate: 3.28 per 1,000

Crude Birth Rate: 11.9 per 1,000

Crude Death Rate: 9.2 per 1,000

Health Indicators

Obesity rate: 24,000/100,000

Cancer Rate: 324.6/100,000

HIV Rate: 17/100,000

Natural Hazards
Past
1348 - Black Death
1937 Massive
Storms
2003 - 10,000
killed in heat wave

Present

2008 - Tornado in
northern France
2009 Earthquake
kills 300 people
2016 - Flooding in
Seine

Future
2020 - Increase in
temperature
2025 - Wildfires and
Floods
2030 - Drought

Historical Population Trends

Projections in Future

Key: Unit in Millions

2010: 64,677,000

2020: 67,658,000

2030: 70,396,000

2040: 72,767,000

2050: 74,297,000

2060: 75,599,000

2070: 77,109,000

2080: 78,842,000

Demographic
Transition
Model
Stage 4: Low Fluctuating

Low Birth Rate: 2.01/1,000

Medium Death Rate:

8.4/1,000

Low National Increase: -0.26

Population and Policies

1939 Code de la famille: Pro-Natalist Policy that

attempted to increase the countries population by
adding incentives

Funds for stay at home mothers

Up to 1064 to have a third child.
Maternity leave near full pay for 20 weeks for the first child
Maternity leave near full pay for 40 weeks or more for the third child
Tax benefits to parents until the youngest child reaches 18
30% fare reduction on all public transport for three child families

Reasons for Migration in

France

Push Factors

Pull Factors

Scarce Space

Flooding of Rivers

Overcrowding

Poor Housing

Poor Health Care

Valuable Resources

Job Opportunities

Religious Freedom
Updated Technology

Good Scenery

More Developed Country (M.D.C)

Frances Migration
Voluntary Migration

Because of the high unemployment rate (9%) some French

voluntarily migrate to other MDCs such as the United States
and Canada for a chance at economic prosperity

Involuntary Migration

During World War II Paris was taken over by Germany and the
Parisians were forced to migrate out of the city and
sometimes even the country

Bibliography
www.louvre.fr/en
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/
http://www.prb.org/datafinder.aspx
http://esa.un.org/unpp/
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.POP.DNST