The number of PACS (PActe Civil de Solidarité), France’s civil union, has only exceeded the number of marriages once since it was instituted in 1999, and that was in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic—hardly the most auspicious year for wedding festivities. That year there were a total of 154,600 marriages in Metropolitan and Overseas France, as against ...
On November 15, 2022, the number of people on earth is expected to cross the threshold of 8 billion. By 2050 the world’s population should reach 9.7 billion, peaking at approximately 10.4 billion in the 2080s. A small number of countries will account for most of the increase. While some countries continue to grow rapidly, others are seeing their populations ...
So you think you know everything about population? Check how well you do on our quizzes.Update: July 2024, based on United Nations World Population Prospects
So you think you know everything about population? Check how well you do on our quizzes.
Fifty years ago, in 1974, the age at which a person attained their legal majority in France was lowered from 21 to 18. This changed the lives of millions of young people; for instance, they could now get married at 18 without parental consent. The reform of half a century ago is an opportunity to take a look at changes ...
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Two out of three Chinese immigrants counted in the French census live in the Ile-de-France region (which encompasses Paris). The category known as economic migrants because that they came to France for jobs, work mostly in the restaurant, bar-tobacco shop, and wholesale goods sectors; they have little or no formal educational attainment and are not proficient in French. Their social ...
You can use the population simulator to see the future population trends of the whole world or of individual countries as forecast by the United Nations projections. You can also make your own simulations by adjusting fertility, life expectancy and the sex ratio at birth. Play with l’institut national d’études démographiques.
