” I want us to regain control of this overflowing immigration (…) »Valérie Pécresse addressed in these terms to its militants, during his first meeting as head of the Les Républicains party at the Mutualité.
But when can we say that immigration is overflowing? One way to measure it is to compare the numbers to those of other developed countries. ” In France we are convinced that we are invaded by immigration, but we do not have a comparative perspective », Deplores François Héran, a demographer specializing in immigration and professor at the Collège de France.
Each year, the OECD publishes a reference document, the outlook for international migration, which compares statistics from around 30 countries. It emerges from the 2021 edition that France is a country of low immigration, relative to the others. Over the last decade (for graphic design: between 2010 and 2020), the share of people born abroad in the total population has increased from 11.6% to 13.1%. An increase of 1.5 points.
During the same period, growth averaged 2.2 points for OECD countries. And the vast majority of countries neighboring France experienced a much larger increase. Among them, the United Kingdom (2.9 points), Germany (3.3 points) or Belgium (4 points).
” As a proportion of the overall population, we can see that immigration has increased less in France than in other countries in recent years. “Jean-Christophe Dumont, director of the OECD’s international migration division, explains to Désintox.
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