Country comparison: France / Iran

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

General information

	France	Iran
Region:	Western Europe	South Asia
Area:	549,087 km²	1,745,150 km²
National language:	French	Persian
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Islamic Republic
Independent since:	843 AD	1906 AD
Capital:	Paris	Tehran

Population

Details for France and Iran

	France	Iran
Population:	67,750,000	87,923,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	50.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 72 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 78 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 31.7 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	14.23 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	5.57 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	-0.30 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Iran
Political stability:	74	22
Civil rights:	85	13
Health:	92	56
Climate:	41	58
Cost of Living:	30	31
Popularity:	71	41

Economy

	France	Iran
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Iranian rial (1 IRR =100 Dinars)
Unemployment rate:	8.1 %	11.5 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	43.39 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	96.23 %	92.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	44.70 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	3,530 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	75 (very bad)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	IRN: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	359,713 M US$	4.09 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	310,228 M US$	3.53 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	29,727 M US$	0.34 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	17,503 M US$	0.20 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Iran

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	IRN: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	223,485 km	2.54 km
Railways:	29,640 km	0.44 km	8,484 km	0.10 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	893	0.0102
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	43	0.0005

Energy balance

Details for France and Iran

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	IRN: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	236.30 bn kWh	2.69 m kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	272.30 bn kWh	3.10 m kWh
Energy export:	61.41 bn kWh	906,425.59 kWh	6.82 bn kWh	77,590.24 kWh
Energy imports:	19.90 bn kWh	293,728.53 kWh	4.22 bn kWh	48,007.68 kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t	630.01 m t	7,165.44 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Iran

	France	Iran
International dialing:	+33	+98
Internet domain:	.fr	.ir

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	IRN total	IRN per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	29,306,782	333
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	135,889,424	1546
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	197,804	2
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	69,104,068	786
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	10,674,899	121

Healthcare system

Details for France and Iran

	France	Iran
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	1.56
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	1.14
Diabetes:	4.8 %	9.6 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.04 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.12 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	84.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	13.6 %

Climate

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

	France	Iran
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	26.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	13.8 °C
Water temperature:	15.4 °C	26.3 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	49 %
Rain days:	8.9	2.9
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	8.1

Native languages

	France	Iran
French:	93.6 %	n/a
Persian:	n/a	53.0 %
Azerbaijanian:	n/a	14.3 %
Kurdish:	n/a	9.1 %
Luri:	n/a	5.6 %
Gilaki:	n/a	5.3 %
Mazandarani:	n/a	3.6 %
Arabic:	2.5 %	2.0 %
Balochi:	n/a	2.0 %
Bakhtyari:	n/a	1.3 %
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Turkmen:	n/a	1.2 %
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	1.5 %	2.6 %

Religions

	France	Iran
Islam:	8.0 %	96.5 %
Christianity:	64.0 %	0.4 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.6 %	n/a
Bahaism:	n/a	0.4 %
other:	2.7 %	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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