Residence permits by reasons for admission
Reason for admission | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
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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.
Note on methodology
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