Residence permits by reasons for admission

First residence permits issued for one year or more, by reason for admission
Reason for admission 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Family 80 711 83 750 89 865 91 668 93 095 89 208 89 854 93 969 106 213 86 829 99 704
% 45,4 46,5 46,7 45,9 44,3 40,9 37,8 37,7 41,3 41,1 39,6
Education 44 763 42 757 46 108 47 547 53 069 56 507 63 809 65 786 64 262 59 879 69 901
% 25,2 23,8 24,0 23,8 25,3 25,9 26,8 26,4 25,0 28,3 27,8
Humanitarian 15 705 16 211 15 872 17 962 19 490 25 866 34 233 31 883 33 800 27 128 32 187
% 8,8 9,0 8,2 9,0 9,3 11,8 14,4 12,8 13,1 12,8 12,8
Work 13 558 11 831 12 948 14 313 16 287 18 151 21 812 27 518 30 888 23 166 30 995
% 7,6 6,6 6,7 7,2 7,8 8,3 9,2 11,0 12,0 11,0 12,3
Various and unknown 22 934 25 462 27 603 28 397 28 099 28 622 28 033 30 318 21 974 14 253 18 863
% 12,9 14,1 14,3 14,2 13,4 13,1 11,8 12,2 8,5 6,8 7,5
Total 177 671 180 011 192 396 199 887 210 040 218 354 237 741 249 474 257 137 211 255 251 650

Residence permits issued to foreign citizens of third countries (non member states of the European Economic area and Switzerland)
Source: Authors’ compilation on the basis of data records from AGDREF; D. Breton, N. Belliot, M. Barbieri, J. Chaput, H. d’Albis, Recent demographic trends in France, Population (English), 78(3-4), 2023.

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Update: February 2024