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DEMOGRAPHICS
By Alessia Caruso
POPULATION
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5,630,692 (July 2012 est.)
0
-14 years: 18.7% (male 6,285,130/female 5,998,821)
1
5-24 years: 12% (male 4,025,189/female 3,849,970)
2
5-54 years: 39.2% (male 12,896,692/female 12,804,661)
5
5-64 years: 12.7% (male 4,032,279/female 4,283,020)
6
5 years and over: 17.5% (male 4,857,441/female 6,597,489) (2012 est.)
PAST PRESIDENTS1st: Bonaparte, Louis-Napoléon
2nd: Thiers, Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe
3rd: de Mac-Mahon, Marie Edme Patrice Maurice
4th: Grévy, François Paul Jules
5th: Carnot, Marie François Sadi
6th: Casimir-Perier, Jean Paul Pierre
7th: Faure, Félix François
8th: Loubet, Émile François
9th: Fallières, Clément Armand
10th: Poincaré, Raymond
11th: Deschanel, Paul Eugène Louis
12th: Millerand, Alexandre
13th: Doumergue, Pierre Paul Henri Gaston
14th: Doumer, Joseph Athanase Gaston Paul
15th: Lebrun, Albert François
16th: Auriol, Vincent Jules
17th: Coty, René Jules Gustave
18th: de Gaulle, Charles André Joseph Marie
19th: Pompidou, Georges Jean Raymond
20th: Giscard d Estaing, Valéry Marie René
21st: Mitterrand, François Maurice Adrien Marie
22nd: Chirac, Jacques René
23rd: Sarkozy, Nicolas24th: Hollande, François Gérard Georges Nicolas
RELIGION IN FRANCE
F
rance has traditionally been a Catholic country and today approximately 80% of the
population of France ascribe, at least nominally, to the Catholic religion. In reality,
however, France is a deeply secular country which has seen the role of organized
religion in the lives of people in France diminish ever since the revolutions in in1780
and 1804. Many French people who are counted as belonging to the Catholic religion
have not been. The vast majority of Catholics in France do not attend church
regularly or even at all.
T
he Catholic Church in France is viewed as quite progressive and keeping in step with
the changes that living in modern society brings. The former Archbishop of Paris
since 1981, Jean Marie , was born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1926 and converted to
the Catholic religion at the age of 14.