The news broke a couple of days ago, we finally know how many Parisians there are: precisely 2,201,000! The population is increasing, slightly but surely, (+ 77,000 more inhabitants now than in 1999, last time “they” counted). People in Paris also tend to be younger and younger (retirees prefer to leave Paris to go to the South) and as a result, there are fewer deaths (15,000 against 18,700). They also studied the increase or decrease in population in each arrondissement. Interesting. If you want to know more – and read French – have a look at this.