Country comparison: France / Greece

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

General information

	France	Greece
Region:	Western Europe	Southern Europe
Area:	549,087 km²	131,960 km²
National language:	French	Greek
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Parliamentary republic
Independent since:	843 AD	1830 AD
Capital:	Paris	Athens

Population

Details for France and Greece

	France	Greece
Population:	67,750,000	10,641,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	80.6
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 79 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 84 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 45.3 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	7.90 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	12.20 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	1.00 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Greece
Political stability:	74	62
Civil rights:	85	63
Health:	92	89
Climate:	41	70
Cost of Living:	30	44
Popularity:	71	45

Economy

Details for France and Greece

	France	Greece
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	8.1 %	14.8 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	1.22 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	96.23 %	74.67 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	51.90 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	20,000 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	48 (moderate)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	GRC: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	214,874 M US$	20.19 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	212,807 M US$	20.00 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	87,521 M US$	8.22 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	103,532 M US$	9.73 M US$
Gross debt:	3,327,038 M US$	49.11 M US$	417,953 M US$	39.28 M US$
Budget deficit:	190,306 M US$	2.81 M US$	16,072 M US$	1.51 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Greece

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	GRC: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	117,000 km	10.99 km
Railways:	29,640 km	0.44 km	2,279 km	0.21 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	1,236	0.1162
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	38	0.0036

Energy balance

Details for France and Greece

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	GRC: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	56.89 bn kWh	5.35 m kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	52.05 bn kWh	4.89 m kWh
Energy export:	61.41 bn kWh	906,425.59 kWh	1.04 bn kWh	97,451.22 kWh
Energy imports:	19.90 bn kWh	293,728.53 kWh	9.83 bn kWh	924,048.10 kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t	60.00 m t	5,638.45 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Greece

	France	Greece
International dialing:	+33	+30
Internet domain:	.fr	.gr

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	GRC total	GRC per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	4,913,036	462
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	11,494,008	1080
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	3,201,000	301
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	8,352,748	785
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	4,435,090	417

Healthcare system

Details for France and Greece

	France	Greece
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	4.20
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	4.59
Diabetes:	4.8 %	4.7 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.14 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.04 ‰
Smokers:	33.4 %	33.5 %

Climate

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

	France	Greece
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	22.4 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	12.6 °C
Water temperature:	15.4 °C	18.8 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	66 %
Rain days:	8.9	5.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	7.4

Native languages

	France	Greece
Greek:	n/a	98.5 %
French:	93.6 %	n/a
Arabic:	2.5 %	n/a
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	0.9 %
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	1.5 %	0.6 %

Religions

	France	Greece
Christianity:	64.0 %	98.0 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	n/a
Islam:	8.0 %	1.3 %
Jewry:	0.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.6 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	0.7 %

Data inventory and updates

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