Demography of Alsace

At January 1st 2006, the number of inhabitants of the area of Alsace was estimated at 1 817 000 inhabitants (against 1 806 069 in 2005), is nearly 3% of the population of the Metropolitan France. The demographic growth rate of the area is rather important (+ 0,68% per annum since 1999). It is mainly due to the natural balance (+ 0,47% per annum), the remainder coming from migratory balance (+ 0,21% annually).

Evolution of the population

Sources: INSEE, and IAURIF.

Natural movement of the population

Provided figures by INSEE -.

Fruitfulness by department

The median number of children per woman or index of the economic situation of fruitfulness evolved/moved as follows for each department and the whole of the area:

Immigration

Foreigners and immigrants in Alsace

Let us recall that, by immigrant one understands somebody residing in France, born foreigner abroad. He can be become French by acquisition or have kept his foreign nationality. On the other hand the group from abroad is consisted the whole of the residents having a foreign nationality, which they were born in France or out of France.

The children of foreign couples born in France are foreign but become French with their majority, if they do not wish to preserve their nationality of origin. However, as of the 13 years age, the parents can ask for French nationality for their child, with his agreement (under condition of having resided five years in France). Moreover minor the 16 year old accomplished can make the request for anticipated acquisition of nationality without the agreement of his/her parents and under the same conditions of duration of residence in France.

Distribution of the immigrants by area of the world and country of origin

The following figures were rounded by INSEE. They show the evolution of the various origins of the immigrants in Alsace between the census of 1999 and the semione.

Acquisitions of French nationality among the immigrants

INSEE provides us the proportion of immigrants in Alsace having acquired French nationality with semi-2004:

Distribution of the births by nationality of the mother

Figures of INSEE for the year 2004:

With 3 034 births for 139 500 people, the group from abroad posts a birth rate of 21,75 ‰, against 11,25 ‰ for the French residents. But this rate must be analyzed according to various nationalities composing the category from abroad. One can calculate thus that it is definitely more important for the Africans and the Turks in particular.

It should be noted that the births out-marriage are definitely less among the foreign ones than among the Frenchwomen, and particularly very few at the Maghrebian women, especially Tunisian, phenomenon which one finds in the other areas of France and in particular in Île-de-France.

Marriages

In 2004, one recorded 8.333 marriages in Alsace, of which:

6.852 between two joint French
216 between foreign couple
624 mixed marriages between French husband and foreign wife
641 mixed marriages between French wife and foreign husband

One attends like everywhere in France an important mixture of population French and foreign, since on 1.697 joint foreigners having contracted marriage, 1.265 (that is to say more or less 74%) had done it in mixed marriages.

Ventilation of the mixed marriages

Source: .

Principal urban surfaces

The following populations refer to the urban surfaces in their extension defined at the time of the census of 1999.

The Alsatian language

The Alsatian or Alsatian language is the more important second among the regional languages of France, after the Occitan. It is one of the alternatives of the family of Germanic dialects spoken in the east about the Vosges, above all in the high basin of the Rhine, in Germanic Suisse, Alsace, in the extreme west of Austria and the German Land of Bade-Wurtemberg.

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