Country comparison: France / Sweden

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

General information

	France	Sweden
Region:	Western Europe	Northern Europe
Area:	549,087 km²	447,430 km²
National language:	French	Swedish
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Independent since:	843 AD	836 AD
Capital:	Paris	Stockholm

Population

Details for France and Sweden

	France	Sweden
Population:	67,750,000	10,416,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	23.3
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 81 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 84 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 41.1 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	10.90 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	9.50 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	3.60 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Sweden
Political stability:	74	89
Civil rights:	85	100
Health:	92	85
Climate:	41	20
Cost of Living:	30	41
Popularity:	71	37

Economy

Details for France and Sweden

	France	Sweden
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Swedish krone (1 SEK =100 Öre)
Unemployment rate:	8.1 %	8.7 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	2.16 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	96.23 %	109.31 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	49.10 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	59,540 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	17 (good)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	SWE: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	635,664 M US$	61.03 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	620,154 M US$	59.54 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	290,793 M US$	27.92 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	263,269 M US$	25.28 M US$
Gross debt:	3,327,038 M US$	49.11 M US$	227,749 M US$	21.87 M US$
Budget deficit:	190,306 M US$	2.81 M US$	1,501 M US$	0.14 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Sweden

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	SWE: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	573,134 km	55.03 km
Railways:	29,640 km	0.44 km	9,701 km	0.93 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	370	0.0355
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	40	0.0038

Energy balance

Details for France and Sweden

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	SWE: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	133.50 bn kWh	12.82 m kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	152.90 bn kWh	14.68 m kWh
Energy export:	61.41 bn kWh	906,425.59 kWh	26.02 bn kWh	2.50 m kWh
Energy imports:	19.90 bn kWh	293,728.53 kWh	14.29 bn kWh	1.37 m kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t	35.00 m t	3,360.28 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Sweden

	France	Sweden
International dialing:	+33	+46
Internet domain:	.fr	.se

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	SWE total	SWE per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	1,382,146	133
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	12,843,683	1233
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	5,978,000	574
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	9,197,972	883
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	4,175,604	401

Healthcare system

Details for France and Sweden

	France	Sweden
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	2.14
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	5.40
Diabetes:	4.8 %	4.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.04 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	72.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	24.0 %

Climate

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

	France	Sweden
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	9.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	2.1 °C
Water temperature:	15.4 °C	8.4 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	80 %
Rain days:	8.9	9.2
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	5.0

Native languages

	France	Sweden
French:	93.6 %	n/a
Swedish:	n/a	89.5 %
Arabic:	2.5 %	0.8 %
Finnish:	n/a	2.4 %
North Slavic languages:	n/a	1.3 %
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	0.6 %
Norwegian:	n/a	0.5 %
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	1.5 %	4.9 %

Religions

	France	Sweden
Christianity:	64.0 %	87.0 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	n/a
Islam:	8.0 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.7 %	0.2 %
Buddhism:	0.6 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	12.8 %

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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