Country comparison: France / Israel

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

General information

	France	Israel
Region:	Western Europe	Western Asia
Area:	549,087 km²	22,070 km²
National language:	French	Hebrew
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Parliamentary democracy
Independent since:	843 AD	1948 AD
Capital:	Paris	Jerusalem

Population

Details for France and Israel

	France	Israel
Population:	67,750,000	9,364,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	424.3
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 81 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 85 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 30.4 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	19.20 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	5.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	2.02 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Israel
Political stability:	74	57
Civil rights:	85	75
Health:	92	84
Climate:	41	81
Cost of Living:	30	36
Popularity:	71	30

Economy

Details for France and Israel

	France	Israel
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	New Israeli sheqel (1 ILS =100 Agorot)
Unemployment rate:	8.1 %	5.1 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	1.49 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	96.23 %	130.19 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	25.30 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	49,290 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	37 (moderate)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	ISR: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	488,527 M US$	52.17 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	461,515 M US$	49.29 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	143,884 M US$	15.37 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	124,578 M US$	13.30 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Israel

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	ISR: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	19,555 km	2.09 km
Railways:	29,640 km	0.44 km	1,599 km	0.17 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	41	0.0044
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	6	0.0006

Energy balance

Details for France and Israel

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	ISR: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	55.00 bn kWh	5.87 m kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	63.09 bn kWh	6.74 m kWh
Energy export:	61.41 bn kWh	906,425.59 kWh	5.20 bn kWh	555,318.24 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	62.65 m t	6,690.52 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Israel

	France	Israel
International dialing:	+33	+972
Internet domain:	.fr	.il

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	ISR total	ISR per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	3,500,000	374
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	12,500,000	1335
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	2,483,000	265
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	8,439,524	901
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	2,656,753	284

Healthcare system

Details for France and Israel

	France	Israel
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	2.98
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	3.22
Diabetes:	4.8 %	9.7 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.10 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.03 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	81.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	21.2 %

Climate

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

	France	Israel
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	25.4 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	15.7 °C
Water temperature:	15.4 °C	22.6 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	60 %
Rain days:	8.9	3.2
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	9.0

Native languages

	France	Israel
French:	93.6 %	n/a
Hebrew:	n/a	63.1 %
Arabic:	2.5 %	18.0 %
Russian:	n/a	14.0 %
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	1.5 %	4.9 %

Religions

	France	Israel
Jewry:	0.7 %	74.7 %
Christianity:	64.0 %	2.0 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	n/a
Islam:	8.0 %	19.3 %
Buddhism:	0.6 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	4.0 %

Data inventory and updates

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