Country comparison: France / Hong Kong

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

General information

	France	Hong Kong
Region:	Western Europe	East Asia
Area:	549,087 km²	1,110 km²
National language:	French	Chinese
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Presidential limited democracy (special administrative region of China)
Capital:	Paris	Hong Kong

Population

Details for France and Hong Kong

	France	Hong Kong
Population:	67,750,000	7,413,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	6,678.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 83 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 88 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 45.6 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	5.80 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	6.80 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	1.65 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Hong Kong
Political stability:	74	80
Civil rights:	85	82
Health:	92	100
Climate:	41	49
Cost of Living:	30	62
Popularity:	71	52

Economy

Details for France and Hong Kong

	France	Hong Kong
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Hong Kong dollar (1 HKD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	7.9 %	5.2 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	1.57 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	96.23 %	77.93 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	21.90 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	54,460 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	24 (good)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	HKG: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	369,176 M US$	49.80 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	403,721 M US$	54.46 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	751,260 M US$	101.34 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	733,459 M US$	98.94 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Hong Kong

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	HKG: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	2,193 km	0.30 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	2,718	0.3666
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	1	0.0001

Energy balance

Details for France and Hong Kong

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	HKG: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	41.84 bn kWh	5.64 m kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	35.97 bn kWh	4.85 m kWh
Energy export:	61.41 bn kWh	906,425.59 kWh	1.21 bn kWh	162,550.08 kWh
Energy imports:	19.90 bn kWh	293,728.53 kWh	11.62 bn kWh	1.57 m kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t	43.64 m t	5,887.50 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Hong Kong

	France	Hong Kong
International dialing:	+33	+852
Internet domain:	.fr	.hk

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	HKG total	HKG per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	3,856,180	520
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	23,939,650	3229
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	870,041	117
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	6,900,644	931
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	2,918,734	394

Healthcare system

Details for France and Hong Kong

	France	Hong Kong
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	4.89
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	1.32
Diabetes:	4.8 %	4.5 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.57 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	74.0 %

Climate

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

	France	Hong Kong
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	26.2 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	21.0 °C
Water temperature:	15.4 °C	23.6 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	80 %
Rain days:	8.9	8.9
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	5.1

Native languages

	France	Hong Kong
Chinese:	n/a	94.8 %
French:	93.6 %	n/a
English:	n/a	3.5 %
Arabic:	2.5 %	n/a
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Hakka:	n/a	1.0 %
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	1.5 %	0.7 %

Religions

	France	Hong Kong
Christianity:	64.0 %	11.8 %
Local chinese beliefs:	n/a	49.0 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.6 %	21.3 %
Taoism:	n/a	14.2 %
Islam:	8.0 %	3.1 %
Jewry:	0.7 %	n/a
Hinduism:	n/a	0.5 %
Sikhism:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	2.7 %	0.0 %

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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