Country comparison: France / Mexico

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

General information

	France	Mexico
Region:	Western Europe	Central America
Area:	549,087 km²	1,964,375 km²
National language:	French	Spanish
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	843 AD	1810 AD
Capital:	Paris	Mexico City

Population

Details for France and Mexico

	France	Mexico
Population:	67,750,000	126,705,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	64.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 66 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 74 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 29.3 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	15.57 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	9.33 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	-0.76 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Mexico
Political stability:	74	49
Civil rights:	85	33
Health:	92	45
Climate:	41	82
Cost of Living:	30	34
Popularity:	71	53

Economy

Details for France and Mexico

	France	Mexico
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Mexican peso (1 MXN =100 Centavos)
Unemployment rate:	7.9 %	4.1 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	5.69 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	96.23 %	54.67 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	55.10 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	9,590 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	69 (bad)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	MEX: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	1,272,839 M US$	10.05 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	1,214,991 M US$	9.59 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	522,235 M US$	4.12 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	544,752 M US$	4.30 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Mexico

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	MEX: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	704,884 km	5.56 km
Railways:	29,640 km	0.44 km	20,825 km	0.16 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	671	0.0053
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	67	0.0005

Energy balance

Details for France and Mexico

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	MEX: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	258.70 bn kWh	2.04 m kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	302.70 bn kWh	2.39 m kWh
Energy export:	61.41 bn kWh	906,425.59 kWh	7.31 bn kWh	57,677.22 kWh
Energy imports:	19.90 bn kWh	293,728.53 kWh	3.53 bn kWh	27,875.74 kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t	449.27 m t	3,545.79 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Mexico

	France	Mexico
International dialing:	+33	+52
Internet domain:	.fr	.mx

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	MEX total	MEX per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	24,366,595	192
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	123,920,752	978
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	16,233,000	128
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	91,187,400	720
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	23,315,640	184

Healthcare system

Details for France and Mexico

	France	Mexico
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	0.98
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	2.25
Diabetes:	4.8 %	13.5 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.23 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.25 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	71.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	13.1 %

Climate

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

	France	Mexico
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	29.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	16.3 °C
Water temperature:	15.4 °C	25.5 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	66 %
Rain days:	8.9	5.9
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	7.5

Native languages

	France	Mexico
French:	93.6 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	92.1 %
Arabic:	2.5 %	n/a
Náhuatl:	n/a	1.8 %
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Yucatec:	n/a	1.1 %
Zapotec:	n/a	0.6 %
Mixtec:	n/a	0.6 %
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
Otomí:	n/a	0.4 %
other:	1.5 %	3.4 %

Religions

	France	Mexico
Christianity:	64.0 %	90.7 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	4.7 %
Islam:	8.0 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.6 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	4.6 %

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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