The French statistical office has published the number of immigrants living in France at the Jan. 2010 census. Here is the evolution in the number of immigrants between the Jan. 2008 census and the Jan. 2010 census (I didn't keep the 2009 census figures, and they are not available on the INSEE website anymore).
An immigrant is someone born outside of France and who wasn't a French citizen at birth. Children of French expats born abroad are not considered as immigrants when they return to France. Children of immigrants born on French soil are not considered as immigrants.
The figures here show the cumulative trends in migration to France in 2008 and 2009. The number of immigrants can grow only due to new arrivals in France. The number of immigrants can decrease either due to departures from France or due to deaths of old immigrants in France.
In Metropolitan France (the Eurorpean part of France).
Absolute evolution in the number of immigrants from Jan. 2008 to Jan. 2010:
- all immigrants: +169,147 people
- immigrants from Morocco: +17,372
- immigrants from Algeria: +16,492
- immigrants from Romania: +16,205
- immigrants from China: +9,728
- immigrants from Portugal: +7,682
- immigrants from Tunisia: +7,194
- immigrants from Russia: +7,073
- immigrants from the Congo-Kinshasa: +6,857
- immigrants from Turkey: +6,853
- immigrants from Cameroon: +6,115
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- immigrants from Vietnam: -388
- immigrants from Laos: -654
- immigrants from Germany: -3,110
- immigrants from Spain: -9,034
- immigrants from Italy: -13,423
Relative evolution in the number of immigrants from Jan. 2008 to Jan. 2010 (only the immigrant communities with more than 10,000 members in Metropolitan France are included):
- immigrants from Romania: +32.2%
- immigrants from Armenia: +24.3%
- immigrants from Bulgaria: +18.6%
- immigrants from Russia: +16.8%
- immigrants from Guinea-Conakry: +13.2%
- immigrants from the Congo-Kinshasa: +13.0%
- immigrants from Brazil: +12.9%
- immigrants from Ukraine: +12.9%
- immigrants from China: +12.4%
- immigrants from the Philippines: +11.8%
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- all immigrants: +3.2%
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- immigrants from Vietnam: -0.5%
- immigrants from Lebanon: -0.7%
- immigrants from Laos: -1.9%
- immigrants from Germany: -2.4%
- immigrants from Spain: -3.5%
- immigrants from Italy: -4.2%
In the 4 old overseas departments (Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and French Guiana).
Absolute evolution in the number of immigrants from Jan. 2008 to Jan. 2010:
- all immigrants: +2,720 people
- immigrants from Suriname: +781
- immigrants from Madagascar: +559
- immigrants from Haiti: +400
- immigrants from the Comoros: +260 (keep in mind that Mayotte is not included)
- immigrants from the Dominican Republic: +243
- immigrants from Colombia: +140
- immigrants from Dominica: +93
- immigrants from Italy: +85
- immigrants from Belgium: +83
- immigrants from Syria: +74
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- immigrants from Lebanon: -34
- immigrants from the UK: -54
- immigrants from China: -72
- immigrants from Laos: -73
- immigrants from Brazil: -96
- immigrants from Guyana: -126
Relative evolution in the number of immigrants from Jan. 2008 to Jan. 2010 (only the immigrant communities with more than 200 members in the overseas departments are included):
- immigrants from Colombia: +55.7%
- immigrants from Syria: +22.1%
- immigrants from Tunisia: +17.8%
- immigrants from the Dominican Republic: +17.6%
- immigrants from the Comoros: +17.6%
- immigrants from Cuba: +17.5%
- immigrants from Italy: +17.2%
- immigrants from Peru: +12.5%
- immigrants from Vietnam: +11.5%
- immigrants from Spain: +11.3%
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- all immigrants: +2.6%
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- immigrants from Guyana: -3.5%
- immigrants from China: -3.7%
- immigrants from Laos: -8.1% (probably due to the death of old Hmong immigrants relocated from the jungles of Laos to the jungles of French Guiana in the 1970s)
- immigrants from Lebanon: -8.6%
- immigrants from Cameroon: -12.1%
- immigrants from the UK: -14.2%
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