Legal Populations of Départements - FrancePopulations légales Départements - France
Populations légales Départements - FranceLegal Populations of Départements - France
This API provides access to legal population figures for French départements, published by INSEE, the French national statistics institute. The data take effect on January 1st, based on administrative divisions as of January 1st of the previous year (N-1) and on the census of year N-3. Coverage is national, encompassing all French départements. The dataset supports demographic analysis, allocation of state funding tied to population thresholds, and administrative or statistical uses requiring officially recognized population counts at the département level.Les données de population publiées par l'INSEE entrent en vigueur au 1 er janvier ; elles sont basées sur les divisions administratives au 1 er janvier de l'année précédente (N-1) et sur le recensement de l'année N-3. Ce jeu de données contient les données relatives aux populations légales des dé...
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Data schema (11 fields)
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| Fill | Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | reg_codeCode Officiel Région | text | — |
| 100% | reg_nameNom Officiel Région | text | — |
| 100% | dep_codeCode Officiel Département | text | — |
| 100% | dep_nameNom Officiel Département | text | — |
| 97.1% | arrdep_countNombre d’arrondissements départementaux | int | — |
| 94.2% | can_countNombre de cantons | int | — |
| 100% | dep_pop_munPopulation municipale Département | int | — |
| 100% | dep_pop_totPopulation totale Département | int | — |
| 100% | census_yearAnnée de recensement | date | — |
| 100% | start_yearAnnée d’entrée en vigueur | date | — |
| 100% | geo_yearAnnée de référence géographique | date | — |
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Sample data (5 records)
Record 1dep_code: ["39"] · dep_name: ["Jura"]
{
"dep_code": [
"39"
],
"dep_name": [
"Jura"
],
"geo_year": "2022",
"reg_code": [
"27"
],
"reg_name": [
"Bourgogne-Franche-Comté"
],
"can_count": 17,
"start_year": "2023",
"census_year": "2020",
"dep_pop_mun": 258798,
"dep_pop_tot": 267920,
"arrdep_count": 3
}Record 2dep_code: ["19"] · dep_name: ["Corrèze"]
{
"dep_code": [
"19"
],
"dep_name": [
"Corrèze"
],
"geo_year": "2022",
"reg_code": [
"75"
],
"reg_name": [
"Nouvelle-Aquitaine"
],
"can_count": 19,
"start_year": "2023",
"census_year": "2020",
"dep_pop_mun": 239190,
"dep_pop_tot": 246927,
"arrdep_count": 3
}Record 3dep_code: ["95"] · dep_name: ["Val-d'Oise"]
{
"dep_code": [
"95"
],
"dep_name": [
"Val-d'Oise"
],
"geo_year": "2022",
"reg_code": [
"11"
],
"reg_name": [
"Île-de-France"
],
"can_count": 21,
"start_year": "2023",
"census_year": "2020",
"dep_pop_mun": 1251804,
"dep_pop_tot": 1261690,
"arrdep_count": 3
}Record 4dep_code: ["56"] · dep_name: ["Morbihan"]
{
"dep_code": [
"56"
],
"dep_name": [
"Morbihan"
],
"geo_year": "2022",
"reg_code": [
"53"
],
"reg_name": [
"Bretagne"
],
"can_count": 21,
"start_year": "2023",
"census_year": "2020",
"dep_pop_mun": 764161,
"dep_pop_tot": 785666,
"arrdep_count": 3
}Record 5dep_code: ["12"] · dep_name: ["Aveyron"]
{
"dep_code": [
"12"
],
"dep_name": [
"Aveyron"
],
"geo_year": "2022",
"reg_code": [
"76"
],
"reg_name": [
"Occitanie"
],
"can_count": 23,
"start_year": "2023",
"census_year": "2020",
"dep_pop_mun": 279554,
"dep_pop_tot": 289842,
"arrdep_count": 3
}Live sample captured at profiling time — values may have changed upstream.
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curl -s 'https://public.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets/demographyref-france-pop-legale-departement/records?limit=20' -H 'Accept: application/json'First 20 records of the dataset as JSON.
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