[July 4th]

Though the figure 5 million may not seem large when viewed next to the populations of countries such as Indonesia, it still represents almost twenty percent of the people in France.

More like 7-8%.

[Ready4Freddy]

The CIA factbook @ http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/fr.html has France's 7/2003 population @ ~60.1 million, so your % appears to be closer to the truth.