Country comparison: France / Nepal

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

General information

	France	Nepal
Region:	Western Europe	South Asia
Area:	549,087 km²	147,180 km²
National language:	French	Nepali
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Federal parliamentary republic
Independent since:	843 AD	1769 AD
Capital:	Paris	Kathmandu

Population

Details for France and Nepal

	France	Nepal
Population:	67,750,000	30,035,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	204.1
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 67 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 71 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 25.3 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	20.64 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	7.21 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	-4.21 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Nepal
Political stability:	75	55
Civil rights:	84	36
Health:	92	37
Climate:	41	57
Cost of Living:	30	56
Popularity:	71	28

Economy

Details for France and Nepal

	France	Nepal
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Nepalese rupee (1 NPR =2 Mohur = 100 Paisa)
Unemployment rate:	8.1 %	5.1 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	4.09 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	96.23 %	28.06 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	41.80 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	1,220 US$
Corruption index:	29 (good)	67 (bad)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	NPL: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	36,289 M US$	1.21 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	36,591 M US$	1.22 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	2,520 M US$	0.08 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	16,993 M US$	0.57 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Nepal

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	NPL: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	27,990 km	0.93 km
Railways:	29,640 km	0.44 km	59 km	0.00 km
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	22	0.0007

Energy balance

Details for France and Nepal

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	NPL: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	4.98 bn kWh	165,906.50 kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	4.24 bn kWh	141,301.87 kWh
Energy export:	61.41 bn kWh	906,425.59 kWh	2.69 m kWh	89.56 kWh
Energy imports:	19.90 bn kWh	293,728.53 kWh	2.18 bn kWh	72,415.54 kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t	13.45 m t	447.81 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Nepal

	France	Nepal
International dialing:	+33	+977
Internet domain:	.fr	.np

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	NPL total	NPL per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	726,000	24
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	38,213,000	1272
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	41,256	1
Internet users:	57,239,443	845	11,187,445	372
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	1,270,000	42

Healthcare system

Details for France and Nepal

	France	Nepal
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	0.30
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	0.65
Diabetes:	4.8 %	7.2 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.04 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	2.29 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	91.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	30.4 %

Climate

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

	France	Nepal
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	24.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	13.6 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	78 %
Rain days:	8.9	9.5
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	6.0

Native languages

	France	Nepal
French:	93.6 %	n/a
Nepali:	n/a	44.6 %
Maithili:	n/a	11.7 %
Bhojpuri:	n/a	6.0 %
Tamang:	n/a	5.1 %
Tharu:	n/a	5.1 %
Newari:	n/a	3.2 %
Magar:	n/a	3.0 %
Bajjika:	n/a	3.0 %
Urdu:	n/a	2.6 %
Arabic:	2.5 %	n/a
Avadhi:	n/a	1.9 %
Limbu:	n/a	1.3 %
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Gurung:	n/a	1.2 %
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	1.5 %	11.3 %

Religions

	France	Nepal
Hinduism:	n/a	81.3 %
Christianity:	64.0 %	1.4 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.6 %	9.0 %
Islam:	8.0 %	4.4 %
Kirant:	n/a	3.1 %
Jewry:	0.7 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	0.8 %

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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