Country comparison: France / Lebanon

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

General information

	France	Lebanon
Region:	Western Europe	Western Asia
Area:	549,087 km²	10,450 km²
National language:	French	Arabic
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Parliamentary republic
Independent since:	843 AD	1941 AD
Capital:	Paris	Beirut

Population

Details for France and Lebanon

	France	Lebanon
Population:	67,750,000	5,593,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	535.2
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 33.7 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	15.33 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	6.25 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	-0.94 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Lebanon
Political stability:	74	14
Civil rights:	85	21
Health:	92	63
Climate:	41	71
Cost of Living:	30	42
Popularity:	71	45

Economy

Details for France and Lebanon

	France	Lebanon
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Lebanese pound (1 LBP =100 Piastres)
Unemployment rate:	7.9 %	12.5 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	154.76 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	32.20 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	5,110 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	76 (very bad)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	LBN: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	23,132 M US$	4.14 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	28,594 M US$	5.11 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	10,147 M US$	1.81 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	17,383 M US$	3.11 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Lebanon

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	LBN: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	21,705 km	3.88 km
Railways:	29,640 km	0.44 km	401 km	0.07 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	48	0.0086
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	1	0.0002

Energy balance

Details for France and Lebanon

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	LBN: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	15.71 bn kWh	2.81 m kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	17.59 bn kWh	3.15 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	69.00 m kWh	12,337.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t	27.95 m t	4,997.65 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Lebanon

	France	Lebanon
International dialing:	+33	+961
Internet domain:	.fr	.lb

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	LBN total	LBN per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	875,480	157
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	4,288,221	767
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	64,926	12
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	4,703,403	841
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	432,070	77

Healthcare system

Details for France and Lebanon

	France	Lebanon
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	2.73
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	2.27
Diabetes:	4.8 %	11.2 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.06 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.10 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	81.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	38.2 %

Climate

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

	France	Lebanon
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	23.6 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	13.6 °C
Water temperature:	15.4 °C	21.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	69 %
Rain days:	8.9	4.8
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	7.7

Native languages

	France	Lebanon
French:	93.6 %	n/a
Arabic:	2.5 %	93.0 %
Armenian:	n/a	5.9 %
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	1.5 %	1.1 %

Religions

	France	Lebanon
Christianity:	64.0 %	40.5 %
Islam:	8.0 %	58.5 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.6 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	1.0 %

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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