Country comparison: France / Japan

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

General information

	France	Japan
Region:	Western Europe	East Asia
Area:	549,087 km²	377,970 km²
National language:	French	Japanese
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Independent since:	843 AD	660 BC
Capital:	Paris	Tokyo

Population

Details for France and Japan

	France	Japan
Population:	67,750,000	125,682,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	332.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 82 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 88 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 48.6 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	6.80 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	11.10 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	0.74 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Japan
Political stability:	74	87
Civil rights:	85	88
Health:	92	92
Climate:	41	54
Cost of Living:	30	27
Popularity:	71	41

Economy

Details for France and Japan

	France	Japan
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Japanese yen (1 JPY =100 Sen)
Unemployment rate:	7.9 %	2.8 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	-0.23 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	96.23 %	101.95 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	46.70 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	42,650 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	27 (good)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	JPN: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	4,940,878 M US$	39.31 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	5,360,684 M US$	42.65 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	919,158 M US$	7.31 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	941,671 M US$	7.49 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Japan

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	JPN: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	1,218,772 km	9.70 km
Railways:	29,640 km	0.44 km	27,311 km	0.22 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	5,201	0.0414
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	80	0.0006

Energy balance

Details for France and Japan

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	JPN: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	943.70 bn kWh	7.51 m kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	989.30 bn kWh	7.87 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	1.08 bn t	8,605.64 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Japan

	France	Japan
International dialing:	+33	+81
Internet domain:	.fr	.jp

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	JPN total	JPN per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	61,583,600	490
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	200,478,808	1595
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	64,453,000	513
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	113,389,252	902
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	44,965,598	358

Healthcare system

Details for France and Japan

	France	Japan
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	12.98
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	2.41
Diabetes:	4.8 %	5.6 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.01 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.11 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	65.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	20.1 %

Climate

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

	France	Japan
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	19.2 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	11.5 °C
Water temperature:	15.4 °C	18.0 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	69 %
Rain days:	8.9	10.0
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	5.3

Native languages

	France	Japan
Japanese:	n/a	99.1 %
French:	93.6 %	n/a
Arabic:	2.5 %	n/a
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Korean:	n/a	0.5 %
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.2 %
English:	n/a	0.1 %
Filipino:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	1.5 %	0.0 %

Religions

	France	Japan
Shinto:	n/a	79.2 %
Buddhism:	0.6 %	66.8 %
Christianity:	64.0 %	1.5 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	n/a
Islam:	8.0 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.7 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	-47.5 %

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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