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Population projection
Definition
A population projection gives a picture of what the future population may look like, based on knowledge of the past and taking, for the future, hypotheses based on fertility, mortality and migrations. The demographic projections are made by INSEE on the basis of the results of the population census. They can be made for the whole of the territory or for any area composed of several municipalities with a total of over 50,000 inhabitants. That could be a department, a region, an urban area, major towns or any ad hoc territory.
