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What is the approximate population of France in 2025?
An official question of the French civic exam, with its answer and the official text that proves it, in French and English.
Resident card no. 156
Quelle est la population approximative de la France en 2025 ?
What is the approximate population of France in 2025?
Answer. About 68 million people (68.6 million as of 1 January 2025).
Environ 68 millions d'habitants (68,6 millions au 1er janvier 2025).
France has 68.6 million people, of whom 66.4 million are in hexagonal France and 2.3 million in the overseas departments.
The official text that proves it
« 68,6 millions d’habitants vivent en France (au 1er janvier 2025) : 66,4 millions en France hexagonale ; 2,3 millions dans les DROM (départements et régions d’outre-mer). »
68.6 million people live in France (as of 1 January 2025). 66.4 million in hexagonal France. 2.3 million in the DROM (overseas departments and regions).
In French, with its English meaning. read the official sheet
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