Country comparison: France / Kenya

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

General information

	France	Kenya
Region:	Western Europe	Eastern Africa
Area:	549,087 km²	580,370 km²
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Presidential republic
Independent since:	843 AD	1963 AD
Capital:	Paris	Nairobi

Population

Details for France and Kenya

	France	Kenya
Population:	67,750,000	53,006,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	91.3
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 60 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 65 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 20.0 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	28.00 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	7.46 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	-0.19 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Kenya
Political stability:	74	41
Civil rights:	85	34
Health:	92	13
Climate:	41	90
Cost of Living:	30	45
Popularity:	71	43

Economy

Details for France and Kenya

	France	Kenya
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Kenian schilling (1 KES =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	7.9 %	5.6 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	6.11 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	96.23 %	42.34 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	37.20 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	2,080 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	68 (bad)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	KEN: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	110,347 M US$	2.08 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	110,401 M US$	2.08 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	11,825 M US$	0.22 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	21,853 M US$	0.41 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Kenya

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	KEN: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	161,452 km	3.05 km
Railways:	29,640 km	0.44 km	3,819 km	0.07 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	26	0.0005
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	16	0.0003

Energy balance

Details for France and Kenya

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	KEN: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	7.86 bn kWh	148,342.78 kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	9.63 bn kWh	181,754.33 kWh
Energy export:	61.41 bn kWh	906,425.59 kWh	39.10 m kWh	737.66 kWh
Energy imports:	19.90 bn kWh	293,728.53 kWh	184.00 m kWh	3,471.33 kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t	22.28 m t	420.33 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Kenya

	France	Kenya
International dialing:	+33	+254
Internet domain:	.fr	.ke

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	KEN total	KEN per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	61,096	1
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	65,085,720	1228
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	71,018	1
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	15,636,656	295
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	788,996	15

Healthcare system

Details for France and Kenya

	France	Kenya
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	1.40
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	0.20
Diabetes:	4.8 %	3.1 %
HIV:	0.17 %	1.17 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	2.51 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	85.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	11.1 %

Climate

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

	France	Kenya
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	27.4 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	16.5 °C
Water temperature:	15.4 °C	27.0 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	66 %
Rain days:	8.9	7.2
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	7.2

Native languages

	France	Kenya
French:	93.6 %	n/a
Kikuyu:	n/a	20.9 %
Luhya:	n/a	13.8 %
Luo:	n/a	12.8 %
Kamba:	n/a	11.2 %
Kalenjin:	n/a	10.8 %
Gusii:	n/a	6.1 %
Nyika:	n/a	4.8 %
Arabic:	2.5 %	n/a
Masai:	n/a	1.6 %
Turkana:	n/a	1.4 %
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	1.5 %	16.6 %

Religions

	France	Kenya
Christianity:	64.0 %	82.5 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	2.4 %
Islam:	8.0 %	11.1 %
Native religions:	n/a	1.6 %
Jewry:	0.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.6 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	2.4 %

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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