Country comparison: France / Thailand

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

General information

	France	Thailand
Region:	Western Europe	Southeast Asia
Area:	549,087 km²	513,120 km²
National language:	French	Thai
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Constitutional monarchy (interim military-government since May 2014)
Independent since:	843 AD	1350 AD
Capital:	Paris	Bangkok

Population

Details for France and Thailand

	France	Thailand
Population:	67,750,000	71,601,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	139.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 84 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 39.0 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	9.18 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	7.26 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	-0.13 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Thailand
Political stability:	75	58
Civil rights:	85	40
Health:	92	71
Climate:	41	46
Cost of Living:	26	89
Popularity:	71	42

Economy

Details for France and Thailand

	France	Thailand
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Thai baht (1 THB =100 Satang)
Unemployment rate:	8.1 %	1.4 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	96.23 %	38.40 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	29.50 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	7,090 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	64 (bad)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	THA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	505,947 M US$	7.07 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	507,857 M US$	7.09 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	296,002 M US$	4.13 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	295,780 M US$	4.13 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Thailand

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	THA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	180,053 km	2.51 km
Railways:	29,640 km	0.44 km	4,127 km	0.06 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	839	0.0117
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	32	0.0004

Energy balance

Details for France and Thailand

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	THA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	187.70 bn kWh	2.62 m kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	181.50 bn kWh	2.53 m kWh
Energy export:	61.41 bn kWh	906,425.59 kWh	2.27 bn kWh	31,661.52 kWh
Energy imports:	19.90 bn kWh	293,728.53 kWh	19.83 bn kWh	276,951.04 kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t	267.09 m t	3,730.25 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Thailand

	France	Thailand
International dialing:	+33	+66
Internet domain:	.fr	.th

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	THA total	THA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	4,634,000	65
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	120,850,000	1688
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	3,399,000	47
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	61,053,978	853
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	13,129,216	183

Healthcare system

Details for France and Thailand

	France	Thailand
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	2.10
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	0.81
Diabetes:	4.8 %	7.0 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.19 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	1.43 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	83.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	22.1 %

Climate

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

	France	Thailand
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	33.0 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	23.9 °C
Water temperature:	15.4 °C	27.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	78 %
Rain days:	8.9	9.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	6.4

Native languages

	France	Thailand
French:	93.6 %	n/a
Thai:	n/a	52.6 %
Lao:	n/a	23.4 %
Chinese:	n/a	12.3 %
Malay:	n/a	3.6 %
Arabic:	2.5 %	n/a
Burmese:	n/a	1.3 %
Khmer:	n/a	1.3 %
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Kuy:	n/a	1.1 %
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	1.5 %	4.4 %

Religions

	France	Thailand
Buddhism:	0.6 %	92.0 %
Christianity:	64.0 %	1.2 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	0.1 %
Islam:	8.0 %	4.9 %
Jewry:	0.7 %	n/a
Sikhism:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	2.7 %	1.7 %

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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