Country comparison: France / Luxembourg

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

General information

	France	Luxembourg
Region:	Western Europe	Western Europe
Area:	549,087 km²	2,590 km²
National language:	French	Luxembourgish
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Constitutional monarchy
Independent since:	843 AD	1867 AD
Capital:	Paris	Luxembourg

Population

Details for France and Luxembourg

	France	Luxembourg
Population:	67,750,000	640,064
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	247.1
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 79 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 84 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 39.5 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	10.20 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	7.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	12.01 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Luxembourg
Political stability:	74	94
Civil rights:	85	97
Health:	92	85
Climate:	41	25
Cost of Living:	30	46
Popularity:	71	42

Economy

Details for France and Luxembourg

	France	Luxembourg
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	7.9 %	5.3 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	2.53 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	96.23 %	113.14 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	20.40 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	88,190 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	23 (good)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	LUX: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	85,506 M US$	133.59 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	56,449 M US$	88.19 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	177,831 M US$	277.83 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	148,150 M US$	231.46 M US$
Gross debt:	3,327,038 M US$	49.11 M US$	21,118 M US$	32.99 M US$
Budget surplus:	-190,306 M US$	-2.81 M US$	769 M US$	1.20 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Luxembourg

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	LUX: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	2,875 km	4.49 km
Railways:	29,640 km	0.44 km	275 km	0.43 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	153	0.2390
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	1	0.0016

Energy balance

Details for France and Luxembourg

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	LUX: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	6.48 bn kWh	10.12 m kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	334.50 m kWh	522,603.99 kWh
Energy export:	61.41 bn kWh	906,425.59 kWh	1.42 bn kWh	2.22 m kWh
Energy imports:	19.90 bn kWh	293,728.53 kWh	7.72 bn kWh	12.06 m kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t	9.49 m t	14,826.64 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Luxembourg

	France	Luxembourg
International dialing:	+33	+352
Internet domain:	.fr	.lu

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	LUX total	LUX per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	268,090	419
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	890,000	1390
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	250,900	392
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	632,556	988
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	235,155	367

Healthcare system

Details for France and Luxembourg

	France	Luxembourg
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	4.26
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	3.03
Diabetes:	4.8 %	5.0 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.12 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.06 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	38.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	21.1 %

Climate

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

	France	Luxembourg
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	14.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	6.3 °C
Rain days:	8.9	10.0
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	5.0

Native languages

	France	Luxembourg
French:	93.6 %	4.2 %
Luxembourgish:	n/a	64.4 %
Portuguese:	1.2 %	13.0 %
Italian:	0.4 %	4.6 %
Arabic:	2.5 %	n/a
German:	n/a	2.3 %
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	1.5 %	11.5 %

Religions

	France	Luxembourg
Christianity:	64.0 %	87.0 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	n/a
Islam:	8.0 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.6 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	13.0 %

Data inventory and updates

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