Country comparison: France / Italy

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

General information

	France	Italy
Region:	Western Europe	Southern Europe
Area:	549,087 km²	301,340 km²
National language:	French	Italian
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Parliamentary republic
Independent since:	843 AD	1861 AD
Capital:	Paris	Rome

Population

Details for France and Italy

	France	Italy
Population:	67,750,000	59,110,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	196.2
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 80 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 85 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 46.5 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	6.80 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	12.50 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	3.20 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Italy
Political stability:	72	65
Civil rights:	85	66
Health:	92	87
Climate:	41	57
Cost of Living:	30	31
Popularity:	71	59

Economy

Details for France and Italy

	France	Italy
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	7.5 %	8.1 %
Inflation rate:	5.22 %	8.20 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	86.88 %	78.05 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	59.10 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	35,990 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	44 (moderate)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	ITA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	2,107,703 M US$	35.66 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	2,127,119 M US$	35.99 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	687,948 M US$	11.64 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	637,934 M US$	10.79 M US$
Gross debt:	3,106,402 M US$	45.85 M US$	2,903,089 M US$	49.11 M US$
Budget deficit:	131,485 M US$	1.94 M US$	159,951 M US$	2.71 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Italy

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	ITA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	487,700 km	8.25 km
Railways:	29,640 km	0.44 km	16,779 km	0.28 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	1,296	0.0219
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	43	0.0007

Energy balance

Details for France and Italy

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	ITA: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	1.214 tn kWh	17.92 m kWh	1.064 tn kWh	18.00 m kWh
Energy consumption:	472.70 bn kWh	6.98 m kWh	286.38 bn kWh	4.84 m kWh
Energy production:	553.71 bn kWh	8.17 m kWh	271.88 bn kWh	4.60 m kWh
Energy export:	64.43 bn kWh	950,927.67 kWh	7.59 bn kWh	128,354.64 kWh
Energy imports:	19.61 bn kWh	289,492.35 kWh	39.79 bn kWh	673,104.78 kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t	317.24 m t	5,366.97 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Italy

	France	Italy
International dialing:	+33	+39
Internet domain:	.fr	.it

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	ITA total	ITA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	19,994,902	338
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	78,114,933	1322
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	25,662,000	434
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	44,250,873	749
Broadband Internet:	31,463,000	464	18,686,502	316

Healthcare system

Details for France and Italy

	France	Italy
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	3.14
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	4.09
Diabetes:	4.8 %	5.0 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.04 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.05 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	95.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	23.1 %

Climate

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

	France	Italy
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	17.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	10.0 °C
Water temperature:	15.4 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	70 %
Rain days:	8.9	6.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	6.2

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
Italy
France

Native languages

	France	Italy
Italian:	0.4 %	94.1 %
French:	93.6 %	0.5 %
Sardinian:	n/a	2.7 %
Arabic:	2.5 %	n/a
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Friuli:	n/a	1.2 %
German:	n/a	0.5 %
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
Albanian:	n/a	0.2 %
Slovenian:	n/a	0.2 %
Romany:	n/a	0.2 %
other:	1.5 %	0.4 %

Religions

	France	Italy
Christianity:	64.0 %	91.6 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	5.8 %
Islam:	8.0 %	1.9 %
Jewry:	0.7 %	0.1 %
Buddhism:	0.6 %	0.3 %
Hinduism:	n/a	0.2 %
Sikhism:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	2.7 %	0.0 %

Data inventory and updates

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