Country comparison: France / Iceland

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

General information

	France	Iceland
Region:	Western Europe	Northern Europe
Area:	549,087 km²	103,000 km²
National language:	French	Icelandic
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Parliamentary republic
Independent since:	843 AD	1944 AD
Capital:	Paris	Reykjavík

Population

Details for France and Iceland

	France	Iceland
Population:	67,750,000	372,520
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	3.6
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 82 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 85 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 37.1 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	12.30 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	6.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	2.89 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Iceland
Political stability:	74	82
Civil rights:	85	94
Health:	92	87
Climate:	41	7
Cost of Living:	30	36
Popularity:	71	33

Economy

Details for France and Iceland

	France	Iceland
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Icelandic krone (1 ISK =100 Aurar)
Unemployment rate:	7.9 %	6.0 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	4.44 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	96.23 %	127.96 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	31.90 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	63,460 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	26 (good)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	ISL: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	25,602 M US$	68.73 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	23,639 M US$	63.46 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	9,775 M US$	26.24 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	10,234 M US$	27.47 M US$
Gross debt:	3,327,038 M US$	49.11 M US$	11,464 M US$	30.78 M US$
Budget deficit:	190,306 M US$	2.81 M US$	480 M US$	1.29 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Iceland

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	ISL: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	12,898 km	34.62 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	41	0.1101
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	10	0.0268

Energy balance

Details for France and Iceland

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	ISL: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	17.68 bn kWh	47.46 m kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	18.17 bn kWh	48.78 m kWh
Energy export:	61.41 bn kWh	906,425.59 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	19.90 bn kWh	293,728.53 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t	1.64 m t	4,402.45 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Iceland

	France	Iceland
International dialing:	+33	+354
Internet domain:	.fr	.is

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	ISL total	ISL per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	100,482	270
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	437,270	1174
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	369,969	993
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	371,354	997
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	143,124	384

Healthcare system

Details for France and Iceland

	France	Iceland
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	2.83
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	3.97
Diabetes:	4.8 %	5.8 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.07 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.03 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	100.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	12.0 %

Climate

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

	France	Iceland
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	8.1 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	3.0 °C
Rain days:	8.9	13.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	3.5

Native languages

	France	Iceland
Icelandic:	n/a	95.7 %
French:	93.6 %	n/a
Arabic:	2.5 %	n/a
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	1.5 %	4.3 %

Religions

	France	Iceland
Christianity:	64.0 %	83.3 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	5.6 %
Islam:	8.0 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.6 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	11.1 %

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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