Paris’ cost of living and crowded conditions are driving away residents resulting in a population decline of 122,919 over the past decade, according to France’s statistics agency INSEE.

Paris authorities are scrambling to halt an ongoing decline in the number of residents in the French capital's centre which has dropped by around 10,000 every year for the past decade. The city of ...

According to the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies, or INSEE, the population of Paris Intramuros, the city's historic core, declined by 0.9 percent between 2021 and 2022.