World population/France
Europe
Population of France
66,746,398
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#23
world rank
0.80%
of world population
+0.14%
yearly change
+91,864
people this year
633,972
births a year
631,108
deaths a year
How the figure for France is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of France at 66,746,398 on 1 July 2026, and projects 66,838,262 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places France at number 23 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.80 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 50 entries in Europe.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 633,972 births and 631,108 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Europe
Ranked by population.