Country comparison: France / Kiribati

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

General information

	France	Kiribati
Region:	Western Europe	Micronesia
Area:	549,087 km²	810 km²
Official language:	French	Kiribati
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Presidential republic
Independent since:	843 AD	1979 AD
Capital:	Paris	Tarawa

Population

Details for France and Kiribati

	France	Kiribati
Population:	67,750,000	128,874
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	159.1
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 66 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 86 years	Ø 69 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 25.7 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	27.21 ‰
Death rate:	9.70 ‰	6.24 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	-2.79 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Kiribati
Political stability:	72	78
Civil rights:	85	64
Health:	91	26
Climate:	41	57
Cost of Living:	30	62
Popularity:	71	24

Economy

Details for France and Kiribati

	France	Kiribati
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Kiribati dollar (1 KID =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	7.5 %	30.6 %
Inflation rate:	5.22 %	-1.81 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	32.70 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	2,750 US$
Government debt (% of GDP):	112.58 %	17.56 %
Government debt (% of GDP):	91.76 %	17.56 %
Corruption index:	28 (good)	69 (bad)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	KIR: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	207 M US$	1.61 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	355 M US$	2.75 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	11 M US$	0.08 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	202 M US$	1.57 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Kiribati

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	KIR: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	670 km	5.20 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	88	0.6828
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	3	0.0233

Energy balance

Details for France and Kiribati

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	KIR: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	1.214 tn kWh	17.92 m kWh	96.36 m kWh	747,707.06 kWh
Energy consumption:	472.70 bn kWh	6.98 m kWh	25.14 m kWh	195,050.98 kWh
Energy production:	553.71 bn kWh	8.17 m kWh	29.84 m kWh	231,520.71 kWh
Energy export:	64.43 bn kWh	950,927.67 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	19.61 bn kWh	289,492.35 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.68 t	86,900.00 t	674.30 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Kiribati

	France	Kiribati
International dialing:	+33	+686
Internet domain:	.fr	.ki

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	KIR total	KIR per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	10	0
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	54,527	423
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	327	3
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	48,972	380
Broadband Internet:	31,463,000	464	300	2

Healthcare system

Details for France and Kiribati

	France	Kiribati
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	1.86
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	0.20
Diabetes:	4.8 %	22.5 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	4.24 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	83.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	40.6 %

Climate

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

	France	Kiribati
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	31.5 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	25.9 °C
Water temperature:	15.4 °C	28.4 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	80 %
Rain days:	8.9	12.6
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	7.2

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
Kiribati
France

Native languages

	France	Kiribati
Kiribati:	n/a	98.9 %
French:	93.6 %	n/a
Arabic:	2.5 %	n/a
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Tuvaluan:	n/a	0.5 %
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	1.5 %	0.6 %

Religions

	France	Kiribati
Christianity:	64.0 %	96.0 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	n/a
Islam:	8.0 %	n/a
Bahaism:	n/a	2.3 %
Jewry:	0.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.6 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	1.7 %

Data inventory and updates

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