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The population of metropolitan France (mainland and Corsica), which stood at 61.9 million on 1 January 2008, grew by 0.5% in 2007. The surplus of births over deaths accounts for four-fifths of this increase, and net migration, i.e. the difference ...

In 1993, France introduced a distinction between a baby born alive who subsequently dies, and a stillborn infant (enfant sans vie, literally ‘lifeless child’). Since then, the definition of a stillbirth, based on the concept of viability, has increasingly expanded, ...

Censuses can produce unexpected results. François Héran and Laurent Toulemon review surprises in French censuses from 1968 to 2004. They examine the adjustments made by the National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE), compare them with practice in the ...

On 1st January 2003, the population of metropolitan France was estimated to be 59.6 million, plus a further 1.8 million living in the French overseas departments, bringing the total to 61.4 million [1]. The population in metropolitan France increased by ...

Most countries count their populations by census.INSEE conducted the second round of the new rench census in January 2005. But this was not always the case. In the seventeenth and eighteenthcenturies, an indirect enumeration technique, called the "multiplier", was preferred. ...