Country comparison: France / Norway

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

General information

	France	Norway
Region:	Western Europe	Northern Europe
Area:	549,087 km²	385,203 km²
National language:	French	Norwegian
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Independent since:	843 AD	1905 AD
Capital:	Paris	Oslo

Population

Details for France and Norway

	France	Norway
Population:	67,750,000	5,408,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	14.0
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 82 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 85 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 39.5 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	9.80 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	7.50 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	3.92 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Norway
Political stability:	74	88
Civil rights:	85	99
Health:	92	90
Climate:	41	17
Cost of Living:	30	41
Popularity:	71	37

Economy

Details for France and Norway

	France	Norway
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Norwegian krone (1 NOK =100 Øre)
Unemployment rate:	8.1 %	5.0 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	3.48 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	96.23 %	124.56 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	36.20 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	83,880 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	16 (good)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	NOR: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	482,175 M US$	89.15 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	453,625 M US$	83.88 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	199,074 M US$	36.81 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	140,444 M US$	25.97 M US$
Gross debt:	3,327,038 M US$	49.11 M US$	122,175 M US$	22.59 M US$
Budget surplus:	-190,306 M US$	-2.81 M US$	23,730 M US$	4.39 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Norway

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	NOR: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	94,902 km	17.55 km
Railways:	29,640 km	0.44 km	4,200 km	0.78 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	1,644	0.3040
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	49	0.0091

Energy balance

Details for France and Norway

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	NOR: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	122.20 bn kWh	22.59 m kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	147.70 bn kWh	27.31 m kWh
Energy export:	61.41 bn kWh	906,425.59 kWh	15.53 bn kWh	2.87 m kWh
Energy imports:	19.90 bn kWh	293,728.53 kWh	5.74 bn kWh	1.06 m kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t	35.95 m t	6,647.17 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Norway

	France	Norway
International dialing:	+33	+47
Internet domain:	.fr	.no

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	NOR total	NOR per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	348,808	64
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	5,825,584	1077
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	3,588,000	663
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	5,354,237	990
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	2,387,661	441

Healthcare system

Details for France and Norway

	France	Norway
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	3.53
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	4.63
Diabetes:	4.8 %	5.3 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.02 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.03 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	89.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	16.2 %

Climate

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

	France	Norway
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	9.0 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	2.1 °C
Water temperature:	15.4 °C	8.8 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	78 %
Rain days:	8.9	11.5
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	4.2

Native languages

	France	Norway
Norwegian:	n/a	96.6 %
French:	93.6 %	n/a
Arabic:	2.5 %	n/a
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
English:	n/a	0.5 %
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
Danish:	n/a	0.4 %
Swedish:	n/a	0.3 %
other:	1.5 %	2.2 %

Religions

	France	Norway
Christianity:	64.0 %	87.8 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	n/a
Islam:	8.0 %	2.3 %
Jewry:	0.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.6 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	9.9 %

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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