Country comparison: France / Netherlands

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

General information

	France	Netherlands
Region:	Western Europe	Western Europe
Area:	549,087 km²	41,543 km²
National language:	French	Dutch
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Independent since:	843 AD	1648 AD
Capital:	Paris	Amsterdam

Population

Details for France and the Netherlands

	France	Netherlands
Population:	67,750,000	17,533,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	422.0
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 80 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 83 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 42.8 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	9.70 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	9.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	1.90 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Netherlands
Political stability:	74	86
Civil rights:	85	99
Health:	92	84
Climate:	41	21
Cost of Living:	30	40
Popularity:	71	36

Economy

Details for France and the Netherlands

	France	Netherlands
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	8.1 %	4.0 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	2.68 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	96.23 %	99.04 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	41.20 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	55,200 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	20 (good)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	NLD: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	1,012,847 M US$	57.77 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	967,837 M US$	55.20 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	839,646 M US$	47.89 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	735,748 M US$	41.96 M US$
Gross debt:	3,327,038 M US$	49.11 M US$	529,980 M US$	30.23 M US$
Budget deficit:	190,306 M US$	2.81 M US$	25,887 M US$	1.48 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and the Netherlands

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	NLD: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	139,124 km	7.93 km
Railways:	29,640 km	0.44 km	3,058 km	0.17 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	1,199	0.0684
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	5	0.0003

Energy balance

Details for France and the Netherlands

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	NLD: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	108.80 bn kWh	6.21 m kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	109.30 bn kWh	6.23 m kWh
Energy export:	61.41 bn kWh	906,425.59 kWh	19.34 bn kWh	1.10 m kWh
Energy imports:	19.90 bn kWh	293,728.53 kWh	24.26 bn kWh	1.38 m kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t	146.34 m t	8,346.53 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and the Netherlands

	France	Netherlands
International dialing:	+33	+31
Internet domain:	.fr	.nl

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	NLD total	NLD per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	5,024,000	287
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	21,888,000	1248
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	13,699,000	781
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	16,139,690	921
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	7,615,000	434

Healthcare system

Details for France and the Netherlands

	France	Netherlands
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	3.17
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	3.51
Diabetes:	4.8 %	5.4 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.02 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.04 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	83.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	22.2 %

Climate

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

	France	Netherlands
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	14.4 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	6.9 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	80 %
Rain days:	8.9	10.7
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	4.9

Native languages

	France	Netherlands
Dutch:	n/a	95.6 %
French:	93.6 %	n/a
Fries:	n/a	3.7 %
Arabic:	2.5 %	0.9 %
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	0.8 %
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	1.5 %	-1.0 %

Religions

	France	Netherlands
Christianity:	64.0 %	47.0 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	42.0 %
Islam:	8.0 %	5.0 %
Jewry:	0.7 %	0.2 %
Buddhism:	0.6 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	5.8 %

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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