Recent Demographic Developments in France: Tenth Anniversary of the PACS Civil Partnership, and Over a Million Contracting Parties

Of the 21 EU countries with net immigration, the net migration rate in France (+1.2 per 1,000) was low compared to the estimated rates for most of the original EU-15 member states (except Germany, where net migration was practically zero in 2008) and to those of three new members which had large net inflows in 2008 (Czech Republic, Slovenia, and Malta: 6-10 per 1,000). Men still have a much higher risk of dying from a cancer of the bronchus or the lung, but female cancer mortality has declined little in recent years due to an appreciable increase in mortality from lung and laryngeal cancer related to the spread of smoking among women.