A few data comparing the overseas communities in Paris and London. Number of immigrants and overseas people in the Paris metro area (the Paris Region here), and number of foreign born people in the London metro area (London LUZ, which is Greater London + 42 districts around it).
London figures are from the 2011 census (March 2011). For Paris, I have used the Jan. 2010 census as the base, and applied the 2009 growth rate to get the figures as of March 2011, for a better comparison with London.
Note that the London figures are "foreign-born", i.e. they include children of British people born abroad (for example children of British soldiers born in Germany, British people from Zimbabwe and South Africa, children of British expats born abroad like in Hong Kong), whereas French figures include only the immigrants, so the British figures here are always statistically swollen compared to the French figures (for example children of British expats born in France and now living in London are included in the 77,209 figure below, whereas children of French expats born in the UK and now living in Paris are not included in the 19,649 figure).
People from each other's country:
- London metro area: 77,209 people born in France live there
- Paris metro area: 19,649 British immigrants and expats live there
People from Italy:
- London metro area: 75,320 people born in Italy live there
- Paris metro area: 54,640 Italian immigrants live there (for an example of the statistical bias that I've indicated, ca. 4,000 non-immigrant people born in Italy live in the Paris Region, but they are not included here)
People from Portugal:
- London metro area: 48,175
- Paris metro area: 240,765
People from Spain:
- London metro area: 43,150
- Paris metro area: 45,549
People from Poland:
- London metro area: 201,900
- Paris metro area: 40,078
People from Romania:
- London metro area: 51,220
- Paris metro area: 35,941
People from Turkey:
- London metro area: 65,092
- Paris metro area: 69,756
People from North Africa (incl. Egypt):
- London metro area: 60,386
- Paris metro area: 633,571
People from sub-Saharan Africa:
- London metro area: 678,070
- Paris metro area: 438,418
People from sub-Saharan Africa (excluding South Africa, Zimbabwe/Rhodesia, and Réunion):
- London metro area: 553,639
- Paris metro area: 406,952 (the ca. 45,000 French people born in sub-Saharan Africa, like Ségolène Royal and all the children of colonial administrators and settlers, are NOT included here, as explained in the introduction, whereas this category of people is included in the British figure, White settlers from Kenya for example)
People from mainland China:
- London metro area: 48,093
- Paris metro area: 62,128
People from Hong Kong:
- London metro area: 36,379
- Paris metro area: a few hundred
People from South East Asia (excluding the Philippines):
- London metro area: 88,366
- Paris metro area: 115,421
People from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka:
- London metro area: 676,313
- Paris metro area: 75,284
People from the USA:
- London metro area: 80,582 (this figure includes British people born in the USA, as explained in the introduction)
- Paris metro area: 18,252 (this figure does NOT include French people born in the USA)
People from the Caribbean:
- London metro area: 155,914
- Paris metro area: 193,226
People from continental Latin America (including the Guianas and Belize):
- London metro area: 107,531
- Paris metro area: 68,010
People from Oceania:
- London metro area: 101,997
- Paris metro area: 7,574
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