Indians make around less than .1% of the France population & approx population of Indians in France as of 2021 is 1.20 Lakhs. A majority of the Indian community hails from the former French colonies in India,i.e Puducherry and Chandannagar. Later arrivals to mainland France were mostly Gujaratis, Keralites and Indians from Mauritius, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, the Seychelles, Réunion, and Madagascar.
NRI population in France are expats from India & number around 20000. Indian Expats have recently immigrated especially information technology professionals.
As of 2000, there were an estimated 65,000 Indians living in metropolitan France, in addition to 300,000 Indians in the French overseas departments and regions of Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana.
Source: Wikipedia