Country comparison: France / Laos

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

General information

	France	Laos
Region:	Western Europe	Southeast Asia
Area:	549,087 km²	236,800 km²
National language:	French	Lao
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Republic (communist one-party system)
Independent since:	843 AD	1953 AD
Capital:	Paris	Vientiane

Population

Details for France and Laos

	France	Laos
Population:	67,750,000	7,425,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	31.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 67 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 71 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 24.0 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	22.45 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	6.37 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	-1.17 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Laos
Political stability:	74	68
Civil rights:	85	20
Health:	92	33
Climate:	41	48
Cost of Living:	30	73
Popularity:	71	35

Economy

Details for France and Laos

	France	Laos
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	kip (1 LAK =100 At)
Unemployment rate:	8.1 %	1.3 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	3.76 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	96.23 %	33.49 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	24.10 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	2,500 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	69 (bad)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	LAO: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	18,827 M US$	2.54 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	18,583 M US$	2.50 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	7,820 M US$	1.05 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	6,527 M US$	0.88 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Laos

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	LAO: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	39,586 km	5.33 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	1	0.0001
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	8	0.0011

Energy balance

Details for France and Laos

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	LAO: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	5.47 bn kWh	736,829.36 kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	29.74 bn kWh	4.01 m kWh
Energy export:	61.41 bn kWh	906,425.59 kWh	8.47 bn kWh	1.14 m kWh
Energy imports:	19.90 bn kWh	293,728.53 kWh	2.50 bn kWh	336,697.75 kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t	18.71 m t	2,519.85 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Laos

	France	Laos
International dialing:	+33	+856
Internet domain:	.fr	.la

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	LAO total	LAO per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	1,300,195	175
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	4,822,973	650
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	1,532	0
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	4,603,535	620
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	150,755	20

Healthcare system

Details for France and Laos

	France	Laos
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	1.50
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	0.50
Diabetes:	4.8 %	6.4 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.19 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	1.43 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	89.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	31.8 %

Climate

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

	France	Laos
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	32.0 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	21.9 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	75 %
Rain days:	8.9	9.6
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	6.1

Native languages

	France	Laos
French:	93.6 %	n/a
Lao:	n/a	67.2 %
Khmer:	n/a	16.5 %
Thai:	n/a	7.8 %
Lao-Soung:	n/a	5.2 %
Arabic:	2.5 %	n/a
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	1.5 %	3.3 %

Religions

	France	Laos
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 %	31.7 %

Data inventory and updates

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