Marseille · Population

Question: What is the population of Marseille? Answer: Marseille, France (Administrative unit: Provence - Alpes - Côte d'Azur) - last known population is ≈ 852 500 (year 2012). This was 1.341% of total France population. If population growth rate would be same as in period 2007-2012 (+0%/year), Marseille population in 2024 would be: 852 806*.

Population history ^[1]

Annual population change

[1946-1954] +0.49 %/year
[1954-1962] +2.14 %/year
[1962-1968] +2.22 %/year
[1968-1975] +0.23 %/year
[1975-1982] -0.55 %/year
[1982-1990] -1.1 %/year
[1990-1999] -0.03 %/year
[1999-2007] +0.82 %/year
[2007-2012] +0 %/year

Location

GPS coordinates: 43.297, 5.381

Local time in Marseille: 06:22 Wednesday GMT+2.

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Marseille on city and population density map

City density ^[2] • population density ^[3] • Legend (Click on marker to hide it)

Population for places near Marseille

• Aix-en-Provence 26 km,

12°
• Martigues 29 km,

294°
• Aubagne 15 km,

91°
• Istres 40 km,

307°
• Vitrolles 21 km,

329°
• Marignane 19 km,

314°
• La Ciotat 23 km,

126°
• Allauch 9 km,

62°
• Gardanne 19 km,

22°
• Les Pennes-Mirabeau 14 km,

336°

Sources, Notices

1946c, 1954c, 1962c, 1968c, 1975c, 1982c, 1990c, 1999c, 2007e, 2012e. Legend: e-estimate, c-census, o-other, ..
* Unofficial, calculated population.
** In some cases boundaries changes also influence the comparability of the population data. Data is provided "as is" without warranty or any representation of accuracy, timeliness or completeness. Terms of use.
[1] Sources
• Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques, Paris, France
• INSEE. Données harmonisées des recensements de la population de 1968 à 2012 in French. Ret. 2015-11-19
• Oizon. Dictionnaire géographique de la France (1979)
[2] City density map, generated by population.city using data provided to us by 1km.net website. Every circle is city with population over 5000. Link
[3] Population density map generated by instructions from daysleeperrr on reddig. Link1. Used data source is the Gridded Population of the World (GPW), v3 online at the the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) at Columbia University. Link2. Additional urban land cover: Extracted from Global Land Cover Characteristics Data Base Version 2.0 and Binary MOD12Q1 data on shadedrelief.com. Link3 (PNG,0.5Mb).