Country comparison: France / Romania

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

General information

	France	Romania
Region:	Western Europe	Eastern Europe
Area:	549,087 km²	238,400 km²
National language:	French	Romanian
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Semi-presidential republic
Independent since:	843 AD	1878 AD
Capital:	Paris	Bucharest

Population

Details for France and Romania

	France	Romania
Population:	67,750,000	19,120,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	80.2
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 71 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 78 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 42.5 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	10.30 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	15.50 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	-3.86 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Romania
Political stability:	72	60
Civil rights:	85	57
Health:	92	74
Climate:	41	37
Cost of Living:	30	67
Popularity:	71	24

Economy

Details for France and Romania

	France	Romania
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Romanian leu (1 RON =100 Bani)
Unemployment rate:	7.5 %	5.4 %
Inflation rate:	5.22 %	13.80 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	86.86 %	42.50 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	20.00 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	14,160 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	54 (bad)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	ROU: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	284,088 M US$	14.86 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	270,677 M US$	14.16 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	115,879 M US$	6.06 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	132,056 M US$	6.91 M US$
Gross debt:	3,106,402 M US$	45.85 M US$	141,820 M US$	7.42 M US$
Budget deficit:	131,485 M US$	1.94 M US$	18,591 M US$	0.97 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Romania

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	ROU: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	84,185 km	4.40 km
Railways:	29,640 km	0.44 km	10,759 km	0.56 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	121	0.0063
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	14	0.0007

Energy balance

Details for France and Romania

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	ROU: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	1.214 tn kWh	17.92 m kWh	179.83 bn kWh	9.41 m kWh
Energy consumption:	472.70 bn kWh	6.98 m kWh	50.04 bn kWh	2.62 m kWh
Energy production:	553.71 bn kWh	8.17 m kWh	53.75 bn kWh	2.81 m kWh
Energy export:	64.43 bn kWh	950,927.67 kWh	5.46 bn kWh	285,514.34 kWh
Energy imports:	19.61 bn kWh	289,492.35 kWh	8.25 bn kWh	431,592.67 kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.68 t	73.95 m t	3,867.61 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Romania

	France	Romania
International dialing:	+33	+40
Internet domain:	.fr	.ro

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	ROU total	ROU per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	2,606,000	136
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	22,929,000	1199
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	2,667,000	139
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	15,982,391	836
Broadband Internet:	31,463,000	464	6,098,801	319

Healthcare system

Details for France and Romania

	France	Romania
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	6.89
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	2.26
Diabetes:	4.8 %	6.9 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.08 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.45 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	82.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	28.0 %

Climate

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

	France	Romania
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	16.1 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	6.1 °C
Water temperature:	15.4 °C	12.8 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	78 %
Rain days:	8.9	7.3
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	5.8

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
France
Romania

Native languages

	France	Romania
French:	93.6 %	n/a
Romanian:	n/a	85.4 %
Hungarian:	n/a	6.3 %
Arabic:	2.5 %	n/a
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Romany:	n/a	1.2 %
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
German:	n/a	0.4 %
Ukrainian:	n/a	0.4 %
other:	1.5 %	6.3 %

Religions

	France	Romania
Christianity:	64.0 %	92.6 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	0.2 %
Islam:	8.0 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.6 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	7.2 %

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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