Residence permits by continent of origin

First residence permits issued for one year or more, by continent of origin
  2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Africa 101 098 102 592 109 665 115 921 122 294 126 171 138 921 147 611 157 886 136 544 158 599
% 56,9 57,0 57,0 58,0 58,2 57,8 58,4 59,2 61,4 64,6 63,0
Asia 43 134 44 047 48 770 49 050 51 301 55 920 61 314 63 224 61 735 46 976 58 496
% 24,3 24,5 25,3 24,5 24,4 25,6 25,8 25,3 24,0 22,2 23,2
America 21 096 20 633 20 734 20 975 21 835 20 437 21 146 22 961 21 977 16 033 20 647
% 11,9 11,5 10,8 10,5 10,4 9,3 8,9 9,2 8,5 7,6 8,2
Europe (1) 11 184 11 405 11 934 12 530 13 266 14 541 15 037 14 423 14 251 10 712 12 697
% 6,3 6,3 6,2 6,3 6,3 6,7 6,3 5,8 5,5 5,1 5,0
Oceania 821 805 716 805 809 803 924 927 805 632 764
% 0,5 0,5 0,4 0,4 0,4 0,4 0,4 0,4 0,3 0,3 0,3
Total (2) 177 669 180 010 192 398 199 885 210 040 218 354 237 741 249 474 257 137 211 255 251 650

(1) Citizens of European countries (non EEA member countries and Switzerland) required to hold a residence permit for living in France.
(2) The sum is not necessarily equal to the total number of residence permits issued because of missing informations.
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