Demographics of France
The demography of France is monitored by the Institut national d'études démographiques (INED) and the Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE). As of 1 January 2018, 67.19 million people lived in France (67,186,638), including all the five overseas departments (2,141,000), but excluding the overseas collectivities and territories (604,000). 65,017,000 of these lived in Metropolitan France, which is mainland France located in Europe.
Communauté de communes
On January 1, 2007, there were 2,400 "communautés de communes" in France (2,391 in metropolitan France and 9 in the overseas "départements"), with 26.48 million people living in them. Since then, many communautés de communes have been merged or have joined a communauté d'agglomération, a communauté urbaine or a métropole. While there were 2,408 communautés de communes in January 2010 and 1,842 in January 2016, there were only 1,009 communautés de communes left on 1 April 2018. The population of the "communautés de communes" (2015 population data, 2018 borders) ranged from 104,039 inhabitants (Communauté de communes Le Grésivaudan, gathering the area between Grenoble and Chambéry) to 3,931 inhabitants (Communauté de communes du Causse de Labastide-Murat, Lot "département").