Residence permits by reasons for admission

First residence permits issued for one year or more, by reason for admission
Reason for admission 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Family 85 565 80 730 83 785 89 873 91 655 93 069 89 169 89 849 93 969 106 213 86 830
% 46,4 45,4 46,5 46,7 45,9 44,3 40,8 37,8 37,7 41,3 41,1
Education 47 672 44 763 42 757 46 108 47 547 53 069 56 507 63 809 65 786 64 262 59 879
% 25,9 25,2 23,8 24,0 23,8 25,3 25,9 26,8 26,4 25,0 28,3
Humanitarian 16 062 15 705 16 211 15 872 17 962 19 490 25 866 34 233 31 883 33 800 27 128
% 8,7 8,8 9,0 8,2 9,0 9,3 11,8 14,4 12,8 13,1 12,8
Work 13 870 13 554 11 827 12 946 14 313 16 287 18 151 21 812 27 518 30 888 23 166
% 7,5 7,6 6,6 6,7 7,2 7,8 8,3 9,2 11,0 12,0 11,0
Various and unknown 21 260 22 919 25 431 27 597 28 410 28 125 28 661 28 038 30 318 21 974 14 252
% 11,5 12,9 14,1 14,3 14,2 13,4 13,1 11,8 12,2 8,6 6,8
Total 184 429 177 671 180 011 192 396 199 887 210 040 218 354 237 741 249 474 257 137 211 255

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, H. d’Albis, M. Mazuy : Recent demographic trends in France, Population-E, 77(4), 2022.

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Update: January 2023