Country comparison: France / Ireland

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

General information

	France	Ireland
Region:	Western Europe	Northern Europe
Area:	549,087 km²	70,280 km²
National language:	French	English
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Parliamentary republic
Independent since:	843 AD	1921 AD
Capital:	Paris	Dublin

Population

Details for France and Ireland

	France	Ireland
Population:	67,750,000	5,033,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	71.6
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 80 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 84 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 37.8 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	11.20 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	6.40 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	3.79 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Ireland
Political stability:	75	86
Civil rights:	85	93
Health:	92	82
Climate:	41	2
Cost of Living:	26	1
Popularity:	71	36

Economy

Details for France and Ireland

	France	Ireland
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	8.1 %	6.6 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	2.36 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	96.23 %	119.76 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	26.10 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	76,110 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	23 (good)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	IRL: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	504,183 M US$	100.17 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	383,084 M US$	76.11 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	677,028 M US$	134.51 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	477,544 M US$	94.88 M US$
Gross debt:	3,327,038 M US$	49.11 M US$	278,941 M US$	55.42 M US$
Budget deficit:	190,306 M US$	2.81 M US$	9,593 M US$	1.91 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Ireland

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	IRL: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	99,830 km	19.83 km
Railways:	29,640 km	0.44 km	4,301 km	0.85 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	96	0.0191
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	12	0.0024

Energy balance

Details for France and Ireland

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	IRL: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	25.68 bn kWh	5.10 m kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	28.53 bn kWh	5.67 m kWh
Energy export:	61.41 bn kWh	906,425.59 kWh	1.58 bn kWh	314,513.83 kWh
Energy imports:	19.90 bn kWh	293,728.53 kWh	871.00 m kWh	173,052.15 kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t	35.75 m t	7,102.89 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Ireland

	France	Ireland
International dialing:	+33	+353
Internet domain:	.fr	.ie

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	IRL total	IRL per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	1,595,061	317
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	5,373,865	1068
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	1,387,000	276
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	4,630,506	920
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	1,576,973	313

Healthcare system

Details for France and Ireland

	France	Ireland
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	2.97
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	3.09
Diabetes:	4.8 %	3.2 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.13 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.05 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	6.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	20.8 %

Climate

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

	France	Ireland
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	13.2 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	6.8 °C
Water temperature:	15.4 °C	11.5 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	83 %
Rain days:	8.9	14.6
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	3.8

Native languages

	France	Ireland
English:	n/a	98.4 %
French:	93.6 %	n/a
Arabic:	2.5 %	n/a
Irish:	n/a	1.6 %
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	1.5 %	0.0 %

Religions

	France	Ireland
Christianity:	64.0 %	90.1 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	5.7 %
Islam:	8.0 %	1.1 %
Jewry:	0.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.6 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	3.1 %

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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