Paris Demography provides information on the statistical data related to population of the city of Paris. The total population of Paris was 2,142,800 in the year 2004. As per the census of 1999, 2,125,246 people lived in the city covering a total area of 10,540 hectares, which comes down to 20,000 residents per square kilometer. Between the year 1999 and 2004, the population of Parisians has increased by 19,000 after a steep fall since 1950.
Demographic trends in Paris show that the highest population of the city was recorded in the year 1921 with nearly three million inhabitants. Since then, the population is gradually decreasing. However, tourists swell the ranks each year. Paris welcomed some 27 million visitors in the year 2006.
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The demography of Paris shows that it is a cosmopolitan society, inhabited by people of various ethnic and religious groups. Maximum number of people in Paris are Roman Catholics. The next biggest religious group is Muslims and the Jews are the third largest. Demographical facts of Paris show that there are few Protestants and Buddhists residing in the city.
Most of the residents of Paris do not originally belong to the city. Nearly 310,000 foreigners inhabit in Paris, which accounts for 14 % of the total population of the city. But since 1982, the population of foreigners living in Paris has been continuously decreasing. 70% of the foreigners living in Paris are not the citizens of European Union member states. Thus Paris Demography highlights on the fact that it is the densest area in France.
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