France’s demographic profile is shifting: new data shows that more than one in three babies born in 2024 had at least one foreign-born parent.
According to national statistics agency INSEE, 34.1% of the 660,787 babies born last year had a parent born abroad while 19% were born to two foreign-born parents—the highest proportion ever recorded.
Some 65.9% of babies were born to two French-born parents, but this is down from 71.8% in 2013—a steady decline in line with rising immigration.
Of the babies born to two foreign-born parents in 2024, 114,325 had parents from outside the European Union while 7,434 had parents born in other EU member states. Another 100,151 babies had one French-born and one foreign-born parent.
France now hosts a record 6 million foreign residents—nearly double the number in 2006. Immigration from Africa accounts for 59% of arrivals in the past five years, compared to just 22% from elsewhere in Europe.
Demographers expect the trend to continue as France becomes increasingly fragmented.
