Sébastien Oliveau - Talk on France Culture: «Should we be worried about demographic decline?»

Intervention by Sébastien Oliveau, geographer, director of the MSH Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay; Aix-Marseille Université - MESOPOLHIS, DEMOMED (Mediterranean Demographic Observatory), in France Culture's «Questions du soir: le débat» podcast (Tuesday 2 September 2025).

Although France has long been a model in terms of fertility, natural population growth will be negative in 2025. The total fertility rate in France has fallen from 2.0 children per woman in 2014 to 1.6 in 2024.

With

Sébastien Oliveau, geographer and demographer

Maxime Sbaihi, economist

Sandra Brée, historian and demographer, CNRS research fellow in historical demography, family and population history at LARHRA

Replay of the show

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