Country comparison: France / Kuwait

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

General information

	France	Kuwait
Region:	Western Europe	Western Asia
Area:	549,087 km²	17,820 km²
National language:	French	Arabic
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Constitutional monarchy
Independent since:	843 AD	1961 AD
Capital:	Paris	Kuwait City

Population

Details for France and Kuwait

	France	Kuwait
Population:	67,750,000	4,250,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	238.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 29.7 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	11.80 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	3.25 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	-3.87 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Kuwait
Political stability:	74	70
Civil rights:	85	45
Health:	92	69
Climate:	41	31
Cost of Living:	30	74
Popularity:	71	26

Economy

Details for France and Kuwait

	France	Kuwait
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Kuwaiti dinar (1 KWD =1000 Fils)
Unemployment rate:	7.9 %	2.8 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	3.42 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	96.23 %	60.31 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	13.00 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	34,290 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	58 (bad)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	KWT: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	105,960 M US$	24.93 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	152,276 M US$	35.83 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	77,121 M US$	18.15 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	48,954 M US$	11.52 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Kuwait

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	KWT: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	5,749 km	1.35 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	165	0.0388
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	1	0.0002

Energy balance

Details for France and Kuwait

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	KWT: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	57.78 bn kWh	13.59 m kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	65.95 bn kWh	15.52 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	92.65 m t	21,799.42 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Kuwait

	France	Kuwait
International dialing:	+33	+965
Internet domain:	.fr	.kw

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	KWT total	KWT per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	583,463	137
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	6,918,180	1628
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	2,771	1
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	4,237,364	997
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	70,468	17

Healthcare system

Details for France and Kuwait

	France	Kuwait
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	2.04
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	2.58
Diabetes:	4.8 %	12.2 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.06 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.20 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	82.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	17.9 %

Climate

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

	France	Kuwait
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	35.2 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	21.0 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	39 %
Rain days:	8.9	1.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	8.0

Native languages

	France	Kuwait
French:	93.6 %	n/a
Arabic:	2.5 %	78.1 %
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	1.5 %	21.9 %

Religions

	France	Kuwait
Islam:	8.0 %	73.2 %
Christianity:	64.0 %	16.0 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	n/a
Hinduism:	n/a	8.3 %
Jewry:	0.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.6 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	2.5 %

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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