Country comparison: France / Malta

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

General information

	France	Malta
Region:	Western Europe	Southern Europe
Area:	549,087 km²	320 km²
National language:	French	Maltese
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Parliamentary republic
Independent since:	843 AD	1964 AD
Capital:	Paris	Valletta

Population

Details for France and Malta

	France	Malta
Population:	67,750,000	518,536
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	1,620.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 81 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 85 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 42.3 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	8.60 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	7.90 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	5.49 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Malta
Political stability:	74	87
Civil rights:	85	69
Health:	92	91
Climate:	41	75
Cost of Living:	30	41
Popularity:	71	44

Economy

Details for France and Malta

	France	Malta
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	7.9 %	3.5 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	1.50 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	96.23 %	74.97 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	44.00 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	30,760 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	49 (moderate)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	MLT: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	17,364 M US$	33.49 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	15,948 M US$	30.76 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	22,110 M US$	42.64 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	21,362 M US$	41.20 M US$
Gross debt:	3,327,038 M US$	49.11 M US$	9,798 M US$	18.90 M US$
Budget deficit:	190,306 M US$	2.81 M US$	1,374 M US$	2.65 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Malta

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	MLT: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	2,254 km	4.35 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	2,137	4.1212
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	1	0.0019

Energy balance

Details for France and Malta

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	MLT: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	2.12 bn kWh	4.09 m kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	813.00 m kWh	1.57 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	1.53 bn kWh	2.94 m kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t	1.66 m t	3,201.32 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Malta

	France	Malta
International dialing:	+33	+356
Internet domain:	.fr	.mt

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	MLT total	MLT per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	259,439	500
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	644,955	1244
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	14,754	28
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	453,562	875
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	221,198	427

Healthcare system

Details for France and Malta

	France	Malta
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	4.49
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	3.83
Diabetes:	4.8 %	8.3 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.12 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	99.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	24.0 %

Climate

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

	France	Malta
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	23.1 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	16.0 °C
Rain days:	8.9	5.4
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	8.2

Native languages

	France	Malta
French:	93.6 %	n/a
Maltese:	n/a	90.1 %
English:	n/a	6.0 %
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 %	3.9 %

Religions

	France	Malta
Christianity:	64.0 %	90.0 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	n/a
Islam:	8.0 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.6 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	10.0 %

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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