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French people Français; Total population; c. 100 million. France: 67,413,000 French diaspora and ancestry: c. 30 million. Regions with significant populations; France: 67,413,000 (including overseas departments) United States (2020) 9,373,000 (includes ancestry) Argentina: 6,000,000 (includes ancestry) Canada (2016) 4,995,000 (includes ancestry)
As of 1 January 2021, 65,250,000 people lived in Metropolitan France, while 2,785,000 lived in overseas France, for a total of 68,035,000 inhabitants in the French Republic. [5] In March 2017, the population of France officially reached the 67,000,000 mark.
It is estimated that between 300 million and 500 million people worldwide can speak French, either as a mother tongue or as a second language.
Languages. French is the national language, spoken and taught everywhere. Brogues and dialects are widespread in rural areas, however, and many people tend to conserve their regional linguistic customs either through tradition or through a voluntary and deliberate return to a specific regional dialect. This tendency is strongest in the frontier ...
According to the 2022 report of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), 321 million people speak French.
As of May 2024, there are 4,930,000 users, 146 admins and 71,663 files on the French Wikipedia. [3]
