Country comparison: Denmark / France

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

General information

	Denmark	France
Region:	Northern Europe	Western Europe
Area:	42,920 km²	549,087 km²
National language:	Danish	French
Government form:	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy	Semi-presidential republic
Independent since:	800 AD	843 AD
Capital:	Copenhagen	Paris

Population

Details for Denmark and France

	Denmark	France
Population:	5,857,000	67,750,000
Inhabitants/km²:	136.5	123.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 80 years	Ø 79 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 84 years	Ø 85 years
Average age:	Ø 42.0 years	Ø 41.7 years
Birth rate:	10.40 ‰	10.90 ‰
Death rate:	9.40 ‰	9.90 ‰
Migrationrate:	2.73 ‰	1.06 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Denmark	France
Political stability:	88	74
Civil rights:	100	85
Health:	85	92
Climate:	17	41
Cost of Living:	35	30
Popularity:	41	71

Economy

Details for Denmark and France

	Denmark	France
Currency:	Danish krone (1 DKK = 100 øre)	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	5.1 %	7.9 %
Inflation rate:	1.85 %	1.64 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	119.94 %	96.23 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	23.80 %	60.70 %
Average income:	68,300 US$	44,160 US$
Corruption index:	10 (good)	28 (good)

	DNK: total	per 1000 inh.	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	398,303 M US$	68.01 M US$	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$
Gross national product:	400,037 M US$	68.30 M US$	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$
Exported goods:	234,262 M US$	40.00 M US$	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$
Imported goods:	208,121 M US$	35.54 M US$	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$
Gross debt:	145,887 M US$	24.91 M US$	3,327,038 M US$	49.11 M US$
Budget surplus:	9,330 M US$	1.59 M US$	-190,306 M US$	-2.81 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Denmark and France

	DNK: total	per 1000 inh.	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	74,558 km	12.73 km	1,053,215 km	15.55 km
Railways:	3,476 km	0.59 km	29,640 km	0.44 km
Harbours:	717	0.1224	548	0.0081
Passenger airports:	10	0.0017	61	0.0009

Energy balance

Details for Denmark and France

	DNK: total	per 1000 inh.	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	33.02 bn kWh	5.64 m kWh	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh
Energy production:	29.84 bn kWh	5.09 m kWh	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh
Energy export:	9.92 bn kWh	1.69 m kWh	61.41 bn kWh	906,425.59 kWh
Energy imports:	14.98 bn kWh	2.56 m kWh	19.90 bn kWh	293,728.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	29.70 m t	5,071.09 t	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t

Telecommunication

Details for Denmark and France

	Denmark	France
International dialing:	+45	+33
Internet domain:	.dk	.fr

	DNK total	DNK per 1000 inh.	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	706,604	121	37,759,000	557
Mobile cellulars:	7,287,875	1244	72,751,000	1074
Internet server:	4,297,000	734	17,266,000	255
Internet users:	5,790,309	989	58,329,375	861
Broadband Internet:	2,605,868	445	30,627,000	452

Healthcare system

Details for Denmark and France

	Denmark	France
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	2.60	5.91
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.46	3.23
Diabetes:	8.3 %	4.8 %
HIV:	0.04 %	0.17 %
Tuberculosis:	0.04 ‰	0.08 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	34.0 %	37.0 %
Smokers:	17.5 %	33.4 %

Climate

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

	Denmark	France
Daytime temperatures:	12.5 °C	16.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	6.3 °C	7.9 °C
Water temperature:	9.1 °C	15.4 °C
Rel. humidity:	82 %	78 %
Rain days:	9.5	8.9
Sunshine hours per day:	5.0	5.5

Native languages

	Denmark	France
French:	n/a	93.6 %
Danish:	93.5 %	n/a
Arabic:	0.7 %	2.5 %
Portuguese:	n/a	1.2 %
Turkish:	0.8 %	0.4 %
German:	0.5 %	n/a
Italian:	n/a	0.4 %
Spanish:	n/a	0.4 %
English:	0.3 %	n/a
Norwegian:	0.3 %	n/a
Swedish:	0.3 %	n/a
other:	3.6 %	1.5 %

Religions

	Denmark	France
Christianity:	86.3 %	64.0 %
Nondenominational:	n/a	24.0 %
Islam:	4.0 %	8.0 %
Jewry:	1.0 %	0.7 %
Buddhism:	1.0 %	0.6 %
other:	7.7 %	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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