Country comparison: France / East Timor

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

General information

	France	Timor-Leste
Region:	Western Europe	Southeast Asia
Area:	549,087 km²	14,870 km²
National language:	French	Tetum
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Semi-presidential republic
Capital:	Paris	Dili

Population

Details for France and Timor-Leste

	France	Timor-Leste
Population:	67,750,000	1,321,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	88.8
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 67 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 70 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 19.6 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	25.26 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	6.83 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	-3.82 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Timor-Leste
Political stability:	75	67
Civil rights:	84	40
Health:	92	38
Climate:	41	73
Cost of Living:	30	67
Popularity:	71	23

Economy

Details for France and Timor-Leste

	France	Timor-Leste
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	US dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	8.1 %	5.1 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	0.96 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	96.23 %	41.90 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	17.30 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	1,140 US$
Corruption index:	29 (good)	59 (bad)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	TLS: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	3,621 M US$	2.74 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	1,510 M US$	1.14 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	2,315 M US$	1.75 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	1,523 M US$	1.15 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Timor-Leste

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	TLS: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	6,040 km	4.57 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	1	0.0008
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	1	0.0008

Energy balance

Details for France and Timor-Leste

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	TLS: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	125.30 m kWh	94,856.55 kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	349.40 m kWh	264,508.21 kWh
Energy export:	61.41 bn kWh	906,425.59 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	19.90 bn kWh	293,728.53 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t	620,000.00 t	469.36 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Timor-Leste

	France	Timor-Leste
International dialing:	+33	+670
Internet domain:	.fr	.tl

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	TLS total	TLS per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	2,012	2
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	1,377,915	1043
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	252	0
Internet users:	57,239,443	845	391,068	296
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	107	0

Healthcare system

Details for France and Timor-Leste

	France	Timor-Leste
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	5.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	0.72
Diabetes:	4.8 %	6.7 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.17 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	4.86 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	91.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	39.2 %

Climate

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

	France	Timor-Leste
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	30.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	22.5 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	75 %
Rain days:	8.9	6.7
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	8.1

Native languages

	France	Timor-Leste
French:	93.6 %	n/a
Tetum:	n/a	33.5 %
Ramelaic:	n/a	19.4 %
Fabronic:	n/a	10.9 %
Alor-Pantar-Makasai:	n/a	8.5 %
Timor-Kisar:	n/a	7.2 %
Arabic:	2.5 %	n/a
Malay:	n/a	2.2 %
Portuguese:	1.2 %	0.2 %
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	1.5 %	18.1 %

Religions

	France	Timor-Leste
Christianity:	64.0 %	99.1 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	n/a
Islam:	8.0 %	0.3 %
Jewry:	0.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.6 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	0.6 %

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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