French analyst Marc Vanguard highlights a new explosion of migration in France in 2024 using data from the INSEE to showcase that country’s migration crisis shows no signs of slowing down. There are now a record 6 million foreigners living in the country, as demographic change accelerates.
“INSEE has just published the latest estimates of the foreign population in France. You’re not ready. Sit down before reading what follows. There are 6 million foreigners in France, an absolute RECORD,” writes Vanguard in an X thread.
👉 Autre record, en 2024, la hausse est de 406 000 étrangers en une année. Ça n'avait JAMAIS eu lieu.
👉Pour vous donner un ordre d'idée, c'est l'équivalent de la hausse cumulée de la population étrangère sur les années 2012, 2013 et 2014 ⬇️
— Marc Vanguard (@marc_vanguard) October 7, 2025‘We also saw a record increase of 280,000 foreigners in France in 2024, and we managed to reach 409,000 this year,” he added.
According to Vanguard, the country has gained 1.7 million inhabitants since 2017, including 1.3 million of foreign origin. In total, there are at least 6 million foreigners in the country, with a steep acceleration year after year.
👉 L'année dernière, on avait aussi connu une hausse record, de 280 000 étrangers en France.
🥇 Oui, vous avez bien lu, 280 000 était déjà un record et on a réussi à faire 400 000 cette année.
280 000, c'était déjà DEUX FOIS l'augmentation annuelle sous François Hollande ⬇️
— Marc Vanguard (@marc_vanguard) October 7, 2025He noted: “Yes, the foreign population in France is growing FOUR times faster than the population of French nationality.”
The author emphasizes a “considerable acceleration of the phenomenon in 2024,” unprecedented in decades.
Oui, la population étrangère en France augmente QUATRE fois plus vite que la population de nationalité française.
🔴 Je me permets d'insister : ces chiffres ne sont pas habituels. Il y a une accélération considérable du phénomène en 2024 ⬇️
— Marc Vanguard (@marc_vanguard) October 7, 2025The INSEE data he cites shows a rapid restructuring of the foreign population, 46 percent of whom are African compared to 35 percent European. Between 2019 and 2024, “Africans account for 59% of this increase, Europeans only 22%,” he writes.
For Vanguard, these figures reflect a profound migratory imbalance: “280,000 was already twice the annual increase under François Hollande.” In conclusion, he warns of a structural trend: a France that is growing more through immigration than through national birth rates.
Les données INSEE permettent de voir l'évolution du nombre d'étrangers par nationalité de 2019 à 2024.
👉 Les Africains contribuent à 59% de cette hausse, les Européens seulement 22% ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/iUo1OV2Z2k
— Marc Vanguard (@marc_vanguard) October 7, 2025It is also worth noting that 115,000 foreigners were naturalized in France last year. Once these foreigners become French citizens, their foreign background is no longer tracked in the data.
In the past, higher numbers have been cited by other French figures, just never from INSEE. In fact, as Remix News reported in 2023, the mayor of the French city of Cannes, David Lisnard, said that France accepted 600,000 migrants the previous year during an appearance on Europe 1.
Part of the problem is that France has no official registry, which means organizations like INSEE are using projections and estimates based on research samples. As a result, researchers are trying to tease out the real numbers, in some cases even resorting to tracking the first names of children born in the country to ascertain demographic trends.
Ultimately, the French want drastically fewer immigrants. Polling shows two-thirds of the French want a stricter immigration policy; however, under Macron, migration numbers had already hit a new record in 2022.
In fact, 74 percent of the French believe there are too many migrants in France, and 72 percent want a referendum on immigration, according to polling.
France also remains unable to deport many migrants, even those with criminal records, which in some cases has had tragic consequences, including the rape and murder last year of 12-year-old Lola by an Algerian migrant long scheduled for deportation. Data shows that only 0.2 percent of Algerians scheduled for deportation were actually deported in 2021.
Mass immigration in France is associated with enormous costs, as well as soaring crime.
Macron is now clinging to power despite horrendous polling and a general loss of power after a series of his prime ministers have been either kicked out of power or resigned.
He already pledged in 2023 to reduce immigration, after claiming the year before that migration is “a part of France’s DNA.”
Earlier this year, French far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon openly called for the Great Replacement in a speech.
“In our country, one person in four has a foreign grandparent. 40% of the population speaks at least two languages. We are destined to be a Creole nation, and so much the better! May the young generation be the great replacement for the old generation,” said Mélenchon.
He also went on to make a number of further statements, saying the new immigrants need “to heal France from the wounds of racism.”
Furthermore, he made inflammatory statements, calling for “torch-bearers” to bring about change, which has revolutionary undertones.
🇫🇷🚨 French far-left leader calls for the Great Replacement
Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “France is destined to be a Creole (mixed Black and French) nation and so much the better! Let the young generation do the replacement of the old… Each generation is a new people!" pic.twitter.com/uLgOMlMXs5
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) February 7, 2025It is not just mass immigration, but millions of French citizens have a foreign background, and despite sometimes generations in the country, there are still stark integration challenges.
In 2024, 30 percent of births in France were to mothers with a non-EU background, with those from North Africa and the Middle East featuring nearly twice the birthrate of the French.
🇫🇷🔴Massive demographic changes happening in France.
70% of compound names in the top 10 for boys are of Arab-Muslim origin, according to L'Officiel des prénoms 2026. This category has seen huge growth for Arab-Muslims in recent years.
Nicolas Pouvreau-Monti, from France's… pic.twitter.com/EbSrxqnJoF
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) October 7, 2025
