Country comparison: France / Maldives

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

General information

	France	Maldives
Region:	Western Europe	South Asia
Area:	549,087 km²	300 km²
National language:	French	Dhivehi
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Presidential republic
Independent since:	843 AD	1965 AD
Capital:	Paris	Malé

Population

Details for France and the Maldives

	France	Maldives
Population:	67,750,000	521,457
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	1,738.2
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 79 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 29.5 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	14.58 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	3.00 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	-12.78 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Maldives
Political stability:	74	69
Civil rights:	85	40
Health:	92	74
Climate:	41	63
Cost of Living:	30	60
Popularity:	71	18

Economy

Details for France and the Maldives

	France	Maldives
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Maldivian rufiyaa (1 MVR =100 Laari)
Unemployment rate:	7.9 %	5.3 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	0.54 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	96.23 %	56.97 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	30.20 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	9,600 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	60 (bad)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	MDV: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	5,406 M US$	10.37 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	5,007 M US$	9.60 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	3,950 M US$	7.58 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	3,501 M US$	6.71 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and the Maldives

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	MDV: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	93 km	0.18 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	68	0.1304
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	9	0.0173

Energy balance

Details for France and the Maldives

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	MDV: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	373.90 m kWh	717,029.40 kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	402.00 m kWh	770,916.87 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	2.11 m t	4,046.35 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and the Maldives

	France	Maldives
International dialing:	+33	+960
Internet domain:	.fr	.mv

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	MDV total	MDV per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	14,005	27
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	706,043	1354
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	3,296	6
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	328,153	629
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	76,518	147

Healthcare system

Details for France and the Maldives

	France	Maldives
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	4.30
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	1.04
Diabetes:	4.8 %	9.2 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.38 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	80.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	25.2 %

Climate

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

	France	Maldives
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	31.0 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	26.3 °C
Water temperature:	15.4 °C	27.8 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	80 %
Rain days:	8.9	10.4
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	7.7

Native languages

	France	Maldives
Dhivehi:	n/a	100.0 %
French:	93.6 %	n/a
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 %	0.0 %

Religions

	France	Maldives
Islam:	8.0 %	100.0 %
Christianity:	64.0 %	n/a
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.6 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	0.0 %

Data inventory and updates

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