# Population in European countries: France

> Population in European countries in France was 68,882,600 people (2025).

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Latest value | 68,882,600 people |
| Period | 2025 (2025) |
| Change vs a year earlier | +0.3 % |
| Frequency | year |

## Definition

Number of people living in the country on 1 January.

1 January of the year, so it differs from Sweden's end-of-December figure by a day.

## Recent periods

| Period | people |
|---|---:|
| 2025 | 68,882,600 |
| 2024 | 68,669,303 |
| 2023 | 68,277,210 |
| 2022 | 68,091,703 |
| 2021 | 67,728,568 |
| 2020 | 67,473,651 |
| 2019 | 67,290,471 |
| 2018 | 67,026,224 |
| 2017 | 66,809,816 |
| 2016 | 66,638,391 |
| 2015 | 66,458,153 |
| 2014 | 66,165,980 |

## Checks

Status: verified, 2026-11-01
- ok: range: latest 2025 = 10587710, allowed 5000000..460000000
- ok: fresh: latest 2025 ends 305 days ago, max 450

## Source and use

Data: Eurostat, dataset demo_pjan, processed by SwedenMetrics.

Data licence: CC BY 4.0. Feel free to cite with a link to the page.

Page: https://swedenmetrics.com/eu-population/france-FR
Svenska: https://swedenmetrics.com/sv/eu-population/france-FR