Population
| Historical population | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1800 | 6,570 | — |
| 1806 | 7,203 | +9.6% |
| 1821 | 7,401 | +2.7% |
| 1831 | 8,920 | +20.5% |
| 1836 | 9,003 | +0.9% |
| 1841 | 9,834 | +9.2% |
| 1846 | 11,541 | +17.4% |
| 1851 | 11,944 | +3.5% |
| 1856 | 11,049 | −7.5% |
| 1861 | 14,089 | +27.5% |
| 1866 | 14,558 | +3.3% |
| 1872 | 16,545 | +13.6% |
| 1876 | 17,050 | +3.1% |
| 1881 | 18,005 | +5.6% |
| 1886 | 17,576 | −2.4% |
| 1891 | 20,197 | +14.9% |
| 1896 | 20,561 | +1.8% |
| 1901 | 21,779 | +5.9% |
| 1906 | 22,264 | +2.2% |
| 1911 | 19,227 | −13.6% |
| 1921 | 22,614 | +17.6% |
| 1926 | 23,392 | +3.4% |
| 1931 | 23,917 | +2.2% |
| 1936 | 37,146 | +55.3% |
| 1946 | 31,434 | −15.4% |
| 1954 | 32,997 | +5.0% |
| 1962 | 33,642 | +2.0% |
| 1968 | 43,438 | +29.1% |
| 1975 | 49,065 | +13.0% |
| 1982 | 54,089 | +10.2% |
| 1990 | 58,315 | +7.8% |
| 1999 | 52,880 | −9.3% |
| 2008 | 65,153 | +23.2% |
Major population growth within Ajaccio occurred between 1945 and 1975, with a doubling of the city's population, caused by a general shift of the population away from rural areas. From the 1960s, pieds-noirs (French citizens living in the north African colonies), immigrants chiefly from the Maghreb, and continental French people also contributed to the increase.
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