Country comparison: France / Saudi Arabia

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

General information

	France	Saudi Arabia
Region:	Western Europe	Western Asia
Area:	549,087 km²	2,149,690 km²
National language:	French	Arabic
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Absolute monarchy
Independent since:	843 AD	1932 AD
Capital:	Paris	Riyadh

Population

Details for France and Saudi Arabia

	France	Saudi Arabia
Population:	67,750,000	35,950,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	16.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 78 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 30.8 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	18.24 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	2.91 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	6.07 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Saudi Arabia
Political stability:	72	62
Civil rights:	85	45
Health:	92	63
Climate:	41	55
Cost of Living:	30	74
Popularity:	71	46

Economy

Details for France and Saudi Arabia

	France	Saudi Arabia
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Saudi rial (1 SAR =20 Qirshes = 100 Hallalas)
Unemployment rate:	7.5 %	5.6 %
Inflation rate:	5.22 %	2.47 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	86.86 %	42.24 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	15.70 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	21,540 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	49 (moderate)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	SAU: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	833,541 M US$	23.19 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	775,463 M US$	21.57 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	286,502 M US$	7.97 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	213,016 M US$	5.93 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Saudi Arabia

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	SAU: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	221,372 km	6.16 km
Railways:	29,640 km	0.44 km	5,410 km	0.15 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	392	0.0109
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	26	0.0007

Energy balance

Details for France and Saudi Arabia

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	SAU: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	1.214 tn kWh	17.92 m kWh	672.64 bn kWh	18.71 m kWh
Energy consumption:	472.70 bn kWh	6.98 m kWh	331.38 bn kWh	9.22 m kWh
Energy production:	553.71 bn kWh	8.17 m kWh	362.44 bn kWh	10.08 m kWh
Energy export:	64.43 bn kWh	950,927.67 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	19.61 bn kWh	289,492.35 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t	523.78 m t	14,569.52 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Saudi Arabia

	France	Saudi Arabia
International dialing:	+33	+966
Internet domain:	.fr	.sa

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	SAU total	SAU per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	6,594,631	183
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	45,427,321	1264
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	145,941	4
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	35,950,396	1000
Broadband Internet:	31,463,000	464	10,588,164	295

Healthcare system

Details for France and Saudi Arabia

	France	Saudi Arabia
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	2.24
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	2.39
Diabetes:	4.8 %	15.8 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.07 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.08 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	90.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	14.3 %

Climate

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

	France	Saudi Arabia
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	32.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	19.6 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	45 %
Rain days:	8.9	1.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	8.4

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
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France

Native languages

	France	Saudi Arabia
Arabic:	2.5 %	95.0 %
French:	93.6 %	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 %	5.0 %

Religions

	France	Saudi Arabia
State religion:	none	Sunni Islam
Islam:	8.0 %	99.0 %
Christianity:	64.0 %	n/a
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.6 %	n/a
Hinduism:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	2.7 %	0.9 %

Data inventory and updates

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