As a French citizen, your allegiance to France trumps all other aspects of your identity. In fact, it is illegal for the French government to collect information about the racial and ethnic origin of its multicultural population on the national census, though approximately 5 percent of the country is black.
France is believed to be home to an estimated three to five million black people or possibly as high as 7.5% of the population.
France Demographics
In 2004, it was estimated that 85% of the population of Metropolitan France was white or of European origin, with 10% from North Africa, 3.5% Black and 1.5% Asian.
Around one in 20 of France's population is of African origin.
African Americans have migrated to France since the 19th century, often to escape the prevalent racism in the United States. The emergence of WWI and the subsequent rise of jazz in France laid the foundations for bustling African American community, and opened doors for black performers, writers, and artists.
Government data about the UK's different ethnic groups. 82% of people in England and Wales are white, and 18% belong to a black, Asian, mixed or other ethnic group (2021 Census data).
The largest Paris racial/ethnic groups are White (86.1%) followed by Hispanic (11.4%) and American Indian (2.5%).
The Black population now accounts for 3.5% of Canada's total population and 15.6% of the population defined as a visible minority. According to the population projections from Statistics Canada, the Black population could increase in the future and might represent between 5.0% and 5.6% of Canada's population by 2036.
France incorporated slavery in all of its early modern overseas colonies, including Canada, and was the first nation-state in the world to issue a general emancipation act (see the separate Oxford Bibliographies articles on French Atlantic World, the Haitian Revolution, Emancipation, and Abolition of Slavery).
According to some estimates it is postulated that about 51 million are white who account for 85% of the total French population, six million people are of North African descent accounting for 10% of the total population, two million are black who account for 3.3% of the population, and about one million or 1.7% of the ...
During the French revolution, the French society was divided into three estates. The peasants belong to the third estate and have to pay all the taxes, the third estate constituted 97% of the population out of which most of them were peasants (About 90%).
Major ethnic groups are Germans (1.4 million), Bretons (1.2 million), Flemish (400,000), Catalonians (200,000), Corsicans (140,000), and Basques (130,000). France has had many ethnic and religious minorities, including Germans, Swiss, Italians, Protestants, Jews, Gypsies, and Mennonites.
The world's largest ethnic group is Han Chinese, with Mandarin being the world's most spoken language in terms of native speakers.
All together, from these estimates and statistics there are roughly 9,6 million Black people in Europe, with over two-thirds from the United Kingdom or France. If North Africans, who are of Berber or Arab ancestry, were to be included, this estimate would double to nearly 22 million.
Texas is home to the largest number of Black people of any state, with around 3.4 million single-race Black people. Georgia and Florida are home to the next largest populations of this population, with roughly 3.3 million single-race Black people each.
According to various data sets from the National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies, some 3 million French nationals of sub-Saharan African origin live in France as naturalized citizens and/or second-generation immigrants.
Slavery was practiced by French colony of New France, by 1750, two thirds of the enslaved peoples in New France were indigenous, and by 1834, most enslaved people were black.
Jamaicans are the citizens of Jamaica and their descendants in the Jamaican diaspora. The vast majority of Jamaicans are of Sub-Saharan African descent, with minorities of Europeans, East Indians, Chinese, Middle Eastern, and others of mixed ancestry.
For more than two centuries, French settlements in Africa and the Americas relied on enslaved laborers to produce colonial commodities and perform domestic service. Between the 1620s and the 1840s, more than one million Africans—and thousands of Amerindians— lived as slaves in France's American colonies.
In the 2021 census, the most commonly nominated individual ancestries as a proportion of the total population were: English (33%) Australian (29.9%)
Migration from the African continent to Australia has increased in volume and diver- sity in the last three decades, with the most recent census identifying 2.6% of the total Australian population as either born in, or having at least one parent born in, Africa.
The farther a country is from the equator, the more oblique the sun's path is to the horizon, causing sunset to last for a different duration. Paris lies on the 49th degree of northern latitude and is therefore very far away from the equator.
The white British population of London made up 37% of the capital in 2021, or 4.5 million, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS. That was down from from 45 per cent, or 4.9 million people in 2011. Meanwhile the white British population of Birmingham made up 581,000, or 52 per cent of the city in 2011.