Country comparison: China / France

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

General information

	China	France
Region:	East Asia	Western Europe
Area:	9,562,910 km²	549,087 km²
National language:	Chinese	French
Government form:	People's republic (communist one-party system)	Semi-presidential republic
Independent since:	1523 BC	843 AD
Capital:	Beijing	Paris

Population

Details for China and France

	China	France
Population:	1,412,360,000	67,750,000
Inhabitants/km²:	147.7	123.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 75 years	Ø 79 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 81 years	Ø 85 years
Average age:	Ø 38.4 years	Ø 41.7 years
Birth rate:	8.52 ‰	10.90 ‰
Death rate:	7.07 ‰	9.90 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.11 ‰	1.06 ‰

Quality of life

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

	China	France
Political stability:	69	74
Civil rights:	37	85
Health:	69	92
Climate:	54	41
Cost of Living:	38	30
Popularity:	73	71

Economy

Details for China and France

	China	France
Currency:	Renminbi yuan (1 CNY = 100 Fen)	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	4.6 %	7.9 %
Inflation rate:	0.98 %	1.64 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	63.16 %	96.23 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	59.20 %	60.70 %
Average income:	11,880 US$	44,160 US$
Corruption index:	55 (bad)	28 (good)

	CHN: total	per 1000 inh.	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	17,734,063 M US$	12.56 M US$	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$
Gross national product:	16,785,119 M US$	11.88 M US$	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$
Exported goods:	3,554,296 M US$	2.52 M US$	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$
Imported goods:	3,091,488 M US$	2.19 M US$	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for China and France

	CHN: total	per 1000 inh.	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	5,200,000 km	3.68 km	1,053,215 km	15.55 km
Railways:	68,141 km	0.05 km	29,640 km	0.44 km
Harbours:	6,662	0.0047	548	0.0081
Passenger airports:	214	0.0002	61	0.0009

Energy balance

Details for China and France

	CHN: total	per 1000 inh.	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	5.564 tn kWh	3.94 m kWh	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh
Energy production:	5.883 tn kWh	4.17 m kWh	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh
Energy export:	18.91 bn kWh	13,388.94 kWh	61.41 bn kWh	906,425.59 kWh
Energy imports:	6.19 bn kWh	4,379.20 kWh	19.90 bn kWh	293,728.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	10.71 bn t	7,581.08 t	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t

Telecommunication

Details for China and France

	China	France
International dialing:	+86	+33
Internet domain:	.cn	.fr

	CHN total	CHN per 1000 inh.	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	180,700,500	128	37,759,000	557
Mobile cellulars:	1,732,661,400	1227	72,751,000	1074
Internet server:	20,602,000	15	17,266,000	255
Internet users:	1,031,774,760	731	58,329,375	861
Broadband Internet:	535,786,000	379	30,627,000	452

Healthcare system

Details for China and France

	China	France
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	4.31	5.91
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.79	3.23
Diabetes:	9.2 %	4.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.55 ‰	0.08 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	95.0 %	37.0 %
Smokers:	25.6 %	33.4 %

Climate

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

	China	France
Daytime temperatures:	19.2 °C	16.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	9.4 °C	7.9 °C
Water temperature:	17.9 °C	15.4 °C
Rel. humidity:	69 %	78 %
Rain days:	6.4	8.9
Sunshine hours per day:	5.9	5.5

Native languages

	China	France
French:	n/a	93.6 %
Chinese:	92.0 %	n/a
Arabic:	n/a	2.5 %
Hakka:	1.8 %	n/a
Zhuang:	1.4 %	n/a
Portuguese:	n/a	1.2 %
Mantšu:	0.9 %	n/a
Hui:	0.8 %	n/a
Uighur:	0.6 %	n/a
Yi:	0.6 %	n/a
Tujia:	0.5 %	n/a
Turkish:	n/a	0.4 %
Mongolian:	0.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	0.4 %
Italian:	n/a	0.4 %
Tibetan:	0.4 %	n/a
Puyi:	0.2 %	n/a
Dong:	0.2 %	n/a
other:	0.2 %	1.5 %

Religions

	China	France
Christianity:	2.3 %	64.0 %
Nondenominational:	58.5 %	24.0 %
Local chinese beliefs:	17.5 %	n/a
Islam:	1.7 %	8.0 %
Buddhism:	6.2 %	0.6 %
Taoism:	4.4 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	0.7 %
Hinduism:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	9.3 %	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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