Country comparison Spain : France

General information

	Spain	France
Region:	Southern Europe	Western Europe
Area:	505,935 km²	549,087 km²
Official language:	Spanish	French
Government form:	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy	Semi-presidential republic
Independent since:	1492 AD	843 AD
Capital:	Madrid	Paris

Population

	Spain	France
Population:	47,327,000	67,499,000
Inhabitants/km²:	93.5	122.9
Life expectancy males:	Ø 80 years	Ø 79 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 85 years
Average age:	Ø 43.9 years	Ø 41.7 years
Birthrate:	7.10 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	10.40 ‰	9.90 ‰
Migrationrate:	4.35 ‰	1.06 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Spain	France
Political stability:	64	72
Civil rights:	73	83
Health:	87	91
Climate:	74	41
Cost of Living:	43	29
Popularity:	66	71

Economy

	Spain	France
Currency:	Euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	14.7 %	8.1 %
Inflation rate:	3.09 %	1.64 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	82.93 %	96.23 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	47.00 %	60.70 %
Average income:	29,740 US$	43,880 US$
Corruption index:	39 (moderate)	29 (good)

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,425,277 M US$	30.12 M US$	2,937,473 M US$	43.52 M US$
Gross national product:	1,407,504 M US$	29.74 M US$	2,961,949 M US$	43.88 M US$
Exported goods:	496,963 M US$	10.50 M US$	921,605 M US$	13.65 M US$
Imported goods:	475,429 M US$	10.05 M US$	957,530 M US$	14.19 M US$
Gross debt:	1,687,991 M US$	35.67 M US$	3,327,038 M US$	49.29 M US$
Budget deficit:	97,950 M US$	2.07 M US$	190,306 M US$	2.82 M US$

Infrastructure

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	683,175 km	14.44 km	1,053,215 km	15.60 km
Railways:	15,718 km	0.33 km	29,640 km	0.44 km
Harbours:	478	0.010	548	0.008
Airports:	135	0.003	464	0.007

Energy balance

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	239.50 bn kWh	5.06 m kWh	450.80 bn kWh	6.68 m kWh
Energy production:	258.60 bn kWh	5.46 m kWh	529.10 bn kWh	7.84 m kWh
Energy export:	14.18 bn kWh	299,619.54 kWh	61.41 bn kWh	909,786.63 kWh
Energy imports:	21.85 bn kWh	461,684.55 kWh	19.90 bn kWh	294,817.68 kWh
CO2 emissions:	239.98 m t	5,070.71 t	300.52 m t	4,452.19 t

Telecommunication

	Spain	France
International dialing:	+34	+33
Internet domain:	.es	.fr

	ESP total	ESP per 1000 inh.	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	19,455,658	411	37,759,000	559
Mobile cellulars:	55,647,705	1176	72,751,000	1078
Internet server:	4,228,000	89	17,266,000	256
Internet users:	44,111,146	932	57,239,443	848
Broadband Internet:	16,188,502	342	30,627,000	454

Healthcare system

	Spain	France
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.97	5.91
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.07	3.23
Diabetes:	6.9 %	4.8 %
HIV:	0.16 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.1 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	47.0 %	12.0 %
Smokers:	27.7 %	33.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Spain and France

	Spain	France
Daytime temperatures:	21.0 °C	16.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	11.1 °C	7.9 °C
Water temperature:	16.7 °C	15.4 °C
Rel. humidity:	68 %	78 %
Rain days:	5.9	8.9
Sunshine hours per day:	7.0	5.4

Native languages

	Spain	France
French:	n/a	93.6 %
Spanish:	74.0 %	0.4 %
Catalan:	17.0 %	n/a
Galecian:	7.0 %	n/a
Arabic:	n/a	2.5 %
Basque:	2.0 %	n/a
Portuguese:	n/a	1.2 %
Italian:	n/a	0.4 %
Turkish:	n/a	0.4 %
other:	0.0 %	1.5 %

Religions

	Spain	France
Christianity:	94.0 %	64.0 %
Nondenominational:	n/a	24.0 %
Islam:	n/a	8.0 %
Jewry:	n/a	0.7 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.6 %
other:	6.0 %	2.7 %