Demography of Haute-Marne

The principal characteristic of Haute-Marne east to be a rural department. The most populated zones are medium-sized cities (Saint-Dizier account 30 000 inhabitants and Chaumont 26 000), the surrounding very dispersed habitat letting emerge only from the villages whose population seldom reaches the 3 000 inhabitants (Nogent or Joinville with a little more 4 000 h. are exceptions).

From a demographic point of view, the department is declining. This starter was done starting from the end of the end of the XIXe century, knew the fall of the two wars, followed as to France of an immediate increase (the Baby-boom) to inflect everywhere again with the fall since the Seventies.

The emigration

The Migratory balance of the department is largely negative. This phenomenon is the consequence of several elements:

the attraction, for the mobile people, of the metropolises of the surrounding departments (Nancy, Rheims, Troyes and Dijon),

an economy more than reduced and not very creative D `employment (the iron and steel industry, first employment sector of the department attracts little),

a lack of structures for higher education (the students go in these 4 cities and do not return any more because there are no outlets for them),

a lack of attractivity from the leisures point of view of (in spite of a certain patrimonial and natural richness, the department, with the eyes the Tops-marnais is a cultural desert: few exposures, concerts, spectacles, this in spite of the efforts of the communities),

Of the not very gravitational climatic conditions.

Some figures illustrate this:

Evolution of the population haut-marnaise 1968 - 1999

Sources INSEE

As an indication, the Napoleonean census of 1801 counted 226.655 inhabitants, that of 1851 gave 268.208 of them, that of 1891 gave 243.322 inhabitants and that of 1901 gave 226.367 inhabitants. The current population is thus definitely fewer than in 1801.

Population by age bracket to the census of 1999

Source INSEE (expressed in %, the first figure being the average haut-marnaise, the second the French average).

If the proportion of 0 - 19 years is appreciably the same one, the table shows well, for the reasons called upon above, the defection of youth for the department. The proportion of reprocessed and very old people is thus more important there proportionally.

See too

Demography of Champagne-Ardenne

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