Some datasets relative to the French demography

freRegion7526 and freRegionOld7526 contains the total population estimate of France (mainland) by region between 1975 and 2026. One row contains estimates by year for a region. freRegion7526 uses the new region system from 2016 and freRegionOld7526 uses the old region system used between 1982 and 2016, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_France.

Usage

data(freRegion7526)
data(freRegionOld7526)

Format

freRegion7526 contains 52 columns and 14 rows. freRegionOld7526 contains 52 columns and 23 rows.

Source

https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/8721456

Examples

# (1) load of data
#
data(freRegion7526)
matplot(1975:2026, t(freRegion7526[1:6, ]), type="l", log="y", xlab="year", 
  ylab="population", main="French population by region")
legend("left", rownames(freRegion7526)[1:6], col=1:6, lty=1:5, bty="n")