Paris Population 2024

• Contents
• Population Ranking
• Languages
• History

The Paris city is divided into twenty arrondissements municipaux, administrative districts, more simply referred to as arrondissements meaning boroughs or city districts. Populations of municipal districts as per statistical reference date on January 1, 2017.

Paris Population Ranking & Density

Paris population in 2023 is 2.25 million population in 2022 is 2.23 million, population in 2021 is 2.1 million, and in 2020 is 2,148,271 (2 million), As per 2020 Paris population statistics insee reference, 406,652 people are between 0-19 years, 718,825 are between 20-39 years, 536,676 are between 40-59 years, 311,978 are between 60-74 years and 174,140 are 75 years and above. Total number of households are 1,141,623. Paris Poverty rate in 2017 is 15.2%. Population density in 2017 is 20,754 people per sq.km.

Below table is the Paris historical population according to France Census years since 1968.

Paris Language demographics

French is the only official language, Most of the population speak Parisian dialect of French.

Paris History

The history of Paris dates back to approximately 259 BC, with the Parisii, a Celtic tribe called Parisii settled on the Ile de la Cite of the Seine river. According to the localhistories, In 52 BC, Paris was conquered by Julius Caesar, It is the regional center under the Romans and in the early Middle Ages, Romans built a town on the River Seine, and estimated population is around 25,000. The Romans used to call as Paris Lutetia and by 150 AD the population is 80,000 and it is considered as peak era of Romans. In the year 508, Clovis I made Paris the capital of his empire. In 987, the Capetian dynasty came to power and ruled until 1328. By this time Paris is most populated city in Europe with 250,000 people. In 1528, King Francis I returned the royal residence to Paris and the city became the largest in Western Europe with 275,000. Paris was the center of the French Revolution which broke out in 1789 which was at the peak with 630,000 people. In 1799, Napoleon became ruler of France, Napoleon reorganised city into twelve arrondissements and built Pont des Arts, Arc de Triomphe and La Madeleine. In 1814 allied armies occupied Paris. In 1830 another revolution took place in Paris. The Duke of Orléans, Louis Philippe became a constitutional monarch of France and then the population is 785,862 in 1830. In 1832 cholera epidemic killed 18,500 people in the city. By 1846 the Paris population reached 1 million and city is overcrowded. During this time Paris grew rapidly but many of its people lived in dire poverty. In 1848, Napoleon III took power in France and lasted until 1870 parts of Paris were rebuilt and the population reached 1.8 million and by 1878 the population of Paris crossed 2 million mark and the population is doubled in 32 years. Paris was soon recovered and it prospered in the late 19th century. In 1887 construction begins of the Eiffel Tower and was unveiled in 1889 and the Metro opened in 1900.