Country comparison: Afghanistan / France

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Afghanistan and France. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Afghanistan	France
Region:	South Asia	Western Europe
Area:	652,860 km²	549,087 km²
National language:	Pashto	French
Government form:	Presidential islamic republic	Semi-presidential republic
Independent since:	1919 AD	843 AD
Capital:	Kabul	Paris

Population

Details for Afghanistan and France

	Afghanistan	France
Population:	40,099,000	67,750,000
Inhabitants/km²:	61.4	123.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 60 years	Ø 79 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 65 years	Ø 85 years
Average age:	Ø 19.5 years	Ø 41.7 years
Birth rate:	36.05 ‰	10.90 ‰
Death rate:	7.11 ‰	9.90 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.10 ‰	1.06 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Afghanistan	France
Political stability:	28	74
Civil rights:	9	85
Health:	15	92
Climate:	64	41
Cost of Living:	63	30
Popularity:	63	71

Economy

Details for Afghanistan and France

	Afghanistan	France
Currency:	afghani (1 AFN = 100 Puls)	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	13.3 %	8.1 %
Inflation rate:	2.30 %	1.64 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	20.54 %	96.23 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	71.40 %	60.70 %
Average income:	390 US$	44,160 US$
Corruption index:	76 (very bad)	28 (good)

	AFG: total	per 1000 inh.	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	14,787 M US$	0.37 M US$	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$
Gross national product:	15,695 M US$	0.39 M US$	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$
Exported goods:	1,476 M US$	0.04 M US$	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$
Imported goods:	6,983 M US$	0.17 M US$	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Afghanistan and France

	AFG: total	per 1000 inh.	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	34,903 km	0.87 km	1,053,215 km	15.55 km
Passenger airports:	5	0.0001	61	0.0009

Energy balance

Details for Afghanistan and France

	AFG: total	per 1000 inh.	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	5.53 bn kWh	137,807.34 kWh	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh
Energy production:	1.21 bn kWh	30,199.91 kWh	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	61.41 bn kWh	906,425.59 kWh
Energy imports:	4.40 bn kWh	109,727.16 kWh	19.90 bn kWh	293,728.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	6.08 m t	151.62 t	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t

Telecommunication

Details for Afghanistan and France

	Afghanistan	France
International dialing:	+93	+33
Internet domain:	.af	.fr

	AFG total	AFG per 1000 inh.	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	145,787	4	37,759,000	557
Mobile cellulars:	22,678,024	566	72,751,000	1074
Internet server:	223	0	17,266,000	255
Internet users:	7,378,301	184	58,329,375	861
Broadband Internet:	26,570	1	30,627,000	452

Healthcare system

Details for Afghanistan and France

	Afghanistan	France
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	0.39	5.91
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.28	3.23
Diabetes:	9.2 %	4.8 %
HIV:	0.07 %	0.17 %
Tuberculosis:	1.89 ‰	0.08 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	95.0 %	37.0 %
Smokers:	23.3 %	33.4 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Afghanistan and France

	Afghanistan	France
Daytime temperatures:	24.3 °C	16.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	9.8 °C	7.9 °C
Rel. humidity:	50 %	78 %
Rain days:	3.9	8.9
Sunshine hours per day:	8.2	5.5

Native languages

	Afghanistan	France
French:	n/a	93.6 %
Pashto:	52.4 %	n/a
Persian:	32.1 %	n/a
Uzbek:	8.8 %	n/a
Arabic:	n/a	2.5 %
Turkmen:	1.9 %	n/a
Portuguese:	n/a	1.2 %
Balochi:	0.9 %	n/a
Italian:	n/a	0.4 %
Spanish:	n/a	0.4 %
Turkish:	n/a	0.4 %
other:	3.9 %	1.5 %

Religions

	Afghanistan	France
Islam:	99.0 %	8.0 %
Christianity:	n/a	64.0 %
Nondenominational:	n/a	24.0 %
Jewry:	n/a	0.7 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.6 %
other:	1.0 %	2.7 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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