Editing Creuse (section)

==Demographics==
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|11=1791|12=238,352|13=1801|14=218,041|15=1806|16=226,283|17=1821|18=248,785|19=1831|20=265,384|21=1841|22=278,029|23=1851|24=287,075|25=1861|26=270,055|27=1872|28=274,663|29=1881|30=278,782|31=1891|32=284,660|33=1901|34=277,831|35=1911|36=266,235|37=1921|38=228,244|39=1931|40=207,882|41=1936|42=201,844|43=1946|44=188,669|45=1954|46=172,702|47=1962|48=163,515|49=1968|50=156,876|51=1975|52=146,214|53=1982|54=139,968|55=1990|56=131,349|57=1999|58=124,470|59=2006|60=124,354|61=2011|62=122,560|63=2016|64=119,502|65=2019|66=116,617|67=2020|68=115,995|69=2022 (estimate)|70=113,711}}

The population peaked at 287,075 in 1851, after which it declined gently until the First World War. During and after the war, the decline in population became much more rapid both because of the death and disruption that characterised the war years and because of the higher wages available to any workers with marketable skills in the economically more dynamic towns and cities outside Creuse. By 1921 the registered population had slumped by almost 38,000 (approximately 14%) in ten years to 228,244, and the decline continued throughout the twentieth century.

Over the last four decades of the twentieth century Creuse experienced the greatest proportional population decline of any French department, from 164,000 in 1960 to 124,000 in 1999 – a decrease of 24%. The department is thus unofficially sometimes dubbed as the "capital of French depopulation" or the "[[Pskov Oblast]] of France".