The French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) has just published its latest estimates on the foreign population in France. Unsurprisingly, the figures have never been higher, and when viewed over a 20-year period, they reveal a massive influx of foreign nationals that is significantly altering the composition of the French population.
The figures have been aggregated and examined by analyst Marc Vanguard, a specialist in demographic statistics. His conclusions, reaffirming the widespread feeling of disenfranchisement from their own country that so many French (and many other Europeans) experience every day, are alarming.
In France, in 2025, the foreign population reached a record 6 million–a level never before achieved. Twenty years earlier, it stood at 3.6 million.
This situation shows that the increase in the French population is almost entirely due to the influx of foreigners. In fact, since 2017 foreigners alone have accounted for 80% of the increase in the French population.
But that’s not all. The analyst notes “a profound migratory imbalance” in favour of populations of African origin. Since 2019, Africans alone have accounted for 60% of the increase in the foreign population in France. Europeans account for only 22%.
Emmanuel Macron’s personal responsibility is glaringly obvious, exacerbating a situation that was already very problematic under his predecessors: the phenomenon has accelerated since 2024. In 2023, France welcomed 280,000 foreigners. But that record has since been sadly broken, with 406,000 arrivals in 2024.
The presence in successive governments of ministers of justice and/or the interior labelled as ‘hard right’ by the Left has made no difference whatsoever. The political failure of the Les Républicains party in this area, which, in the person of Bruno Retailleau, minister of the interior, has largely compromised itself with the support of Macron, is obvious.
The figures shared by Vanguard confirm that the question of the ‘great replacement’ has long since left the realm of myth or fantasy. As Renaud Camus tirelessly reminds us, this is a raw fact that must be taken into consideration, regardless of any conspiracy theories. The population is objectively changing.
In his analysis, Vanguard also points out that the proportion of foreigners in France is lower than the European average. Furthermore, the influx of immigrants is relatively lower than in many neighbouring countries. Unsurprisingly, the mainstream press has been quick to report on this particular finding, which seemingly contradicts the discourse of the French national right. “We are far from the tidal wave that some people are talking about,” says the daily newspaper 20 Minutes, with a bombastic tone.
But Vanguard nuances this statement. The French case remains unique because France is the only country in Europe, along with the Netherlands, to have welcomed high levels of non-European immigration for several decades—more than fifty years. Furthermore, it is important to take into account the nature of the immigrant flow: the cases of Luxembourg or Switzerland cannot be compared in economic and cultural terms with that of France, since in these two countries immigration is mainly from Europe.
At the same time as these figures are being released, the conservative investigative magazine Frontières is publishing a shocking investigation into French municipalities that are willingly lending a hand to the Islamisation of the country. The over-representation of African immigration is obviously the main driver of this phenomenon. The feedback from the field reported by Frontières journalists in their investigation is unequivocal: for many French people, it is absolutely clear that France in 2025 will no longer be the same as it was twenty or thirty years ago, and the pace of change is accelerating.
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