Immigration: 5.5 million Algerians settled in France. Half a million of them reside in Paris

A report issued by the French Institute of statistics and economic studies “INSEE” reveals that Algerians living in the French capital Paris reached 460,000 people out of a total of 5.5 million Algerian expatriates now settled in various parts of France.

In contrast to a map specific to the largest foreign communities in various European countries, Algerians rank first in France, in terms of the number of their community with Algerian immigrants numbering more than 5 and a half million, while 3 million are Moroccans.

With the increase of Spanish, Portuguese and Italian in France, the weight of European immigrants arrived in recent years to 46 percent, while this percentage for African reached 30%, with a presence in Morocco (7%), Algeria (7%) and Tunisia (3%). Meanwhile, 14 percent of all immigrants who settled in France that year were from Asian countries – 3% of China and 2% in Turkey.

INSEE published its numerical investigative report of immigration in France. The results are clear: between 2004 and 2014, over 200,000 immigrants arrived each year on average, or about the equivalent of the population of the city of Rennes.

In total, between 2004 and 2014, so that’s 1.7 million immigrants who arrived in France is twice the equivalent of the population of the city of Marseille, second most populated city in France.

Africa accounts for around 30% of migration flows arriving in France.

However, the INSEE survey did not include estimates of illegal immigration or those who reside in France for less than twelve months.

Commentators say however that this survey that does not reflect exactly all the realities of immigration. In France today, it is estimated that the numbers of illegal immigration are almost identical to those of legal immigration.