Country comparison: France / Libya

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

General information

	France	Libya
Region:	Western Europe	Northern Africa
Area:	549,087 km²	1,759,540 km²
National language:	French	Arabic
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Republic (transitional government after dictatorship)
Independent since:	843 AD	1951 AD
Capital:	Paris	Tripoli

Population

Details for France and Libya

	France	Libya
Population:	67,750,000	6,735,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	3.8
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 70 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 75 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 25.8 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	18.30 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	5.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	-1.61 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Libya
Political stability:	74	15
Civil rights:	85	2
Health:	92	58
Climate:	41	72
Cost of Living:	30	53
Popularity:	71	48

Economy

Details for France and Libya

	France	Libya
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Libyan dinar (1 LYD =1000 Dirhams)
Unemployment rate:	8.1 %	19.6 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	2.61 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	32.60 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	8,700 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	83 (very bad)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	LBY: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	42,817 M US$	6.36 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	58,608 M US$	8.70 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	9,537 M US$	1.42 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	14,334 M US$	2.13 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Libya

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	LBY: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	37,000 km	5.49 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	94	0.0140
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	12	0.0018

Energy balance

Details for France and Libya

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	LBY: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	27.30 bn kWh	4.05 m kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	34.24 bn kWh	5.08 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	376.00 m kWh	55,825.47 kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t	56.80 m t	8,433.21 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Libya

	France	Libya
International dialing:	+33	+218
Internet domain:	.fr	.ly

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	LBY total	LBY per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	1,576,000	234
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	2,922,000	434
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	17,926	3
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	1,465,522	218
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	332,000	49

Healthcare system

Details for France and Libya

	France	Libya
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	3.20
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	2.16
Diabetes:	4.8 %	10.2 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.10 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.59 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	69.0 %

Climate

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

	France	Libya
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	28.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	16.3 °C
Water temperature:	15.4 °C	20.6 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	47 %
Rain days:	8.9	1.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	9.4

Native languages

	France	Libya
Arabic:	2.5 %	96.0 %
French:	93.6 %	n/a
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Berberi:	n/a	1.0 %
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	1.5 %	3.0 %

Religions

	France	Libya
Islam:	8.0 %	96.6 %
Christianity:	64.0 %	2.7 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.6 %	0.3 %
other:	2.7 %	0.4 %

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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