The most populous commune is Vitry-sur-Seine; the prefecture Créteil is the second-most populous. As of 2019, there are 5 communes with more than 60,000 inhabitants:[4]
Val-de-Marne was created in January 1968, through the implementation of a law passed in July 1964. Positioned to the south-east of the Paris ring road (and the line of the old city walls), it was formed from the southern-eastern part of the (previously much larger) Seine department, together with a small portion taken from the broken-up department of Seine-et-Oise.
Demographics
Population development since 1881:
Historical population
Year
Pop.
±% p.a.
1881
161,607
—
1891
213,706
+2.83%
1901
288,879
+3.06%
1911
386,073
+2.94%
1921
462,200
+1.82%
1931
657,322
+3.58%
1936
685,295
+0.84%
1946
672,024
−0.20%
1954
767,729
+1.68%
Year
Pop.
±% p.a.
1962
974,962
+3.03%
1968
1,121,319
+2.36%
1975
1,215,713
+1.16%
1982
1,193,655
−0.26%
1990
1,215,538
+0.23%
1999
1,227,250
+0.11%
2006
1,298,340
+0.81%
2011
1,333,702
+0.54%
2016
1,378,151
+0.66%
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1 This group is made up largely of former French settlers, such as pieds-noirs in Northwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), as well as to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. A foreign country is understood as a country not part of France in 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics.
2 An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. An immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.
Politics
The president of the Departmental Council is Olivier Capitanio, elected in July 2021.