Country comparison: France / Turkey

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

General information

	France	Turkey
Region:	Western Europe	Western Asia
Area:	549,087 km²	785,350 km²
National language:	French	Turkish
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Parliamentary republic
Independent since:	843 AD	1923 AD
Capital:	Paris	Ankara

Population

Details for France and Turkey

	France	Turkey
Population:	67,750,000	84,775,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	107.9
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 73 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 79 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 32.2 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	15.03 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	6.38 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	-1.53 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Turkey
Political stability:	72	35
Civil rights:	85	35
Health:	92	60
Climate:	41	62
Cost of Living:	30	61
Popularity:	71	50

Economy

Details for France and Turkey

	France	Turkey
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Turkish lira (1 TRY =100 Kurus)
Unemployment rate:	7.5 %	10.0 %
Inflation rate:	5.22 %	72.31 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	86.86 %	19.27 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	42.30 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	9,900 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	64 (bad)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	TUR: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	819,035 M US$	9.66 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	839,645 M US$	9.90 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	343,368 M US$	4.05 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	383,283 M US$	4.52 M US$
Gross debt:	3,106,402 M US$	45.85 M US$	237,036 M US$	2.80 M US$
Budget deficit:	131,485 M US$	1.94 M US$	15,125 M US$	0.18 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Turkey

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	TUR: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	67,333 km	0.79 km
Railways:	29,640 km	0.44 km	10,378 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	1,217	0.0144
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	51	0.0006

Energy balance

Details for France and Turkey

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	TUR: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	1.214 tn kWh	17.92 m kWh	848.37 bn kWh	10.01 m kWh
Energy consumption:	472.70 bn kWh	6.98 m kWh	263.95 bn kWh	3.11 m kWh
Energy production:	553.71 bn kWh	8.17 m kWh	293.82 bn kWh	3.47 m kWh
Energy export:	64.43 bn kWh	950,927.67 kWh	2.48 bn kWh	29,300.95 kWh
Energy imports:	19.61 bn kWh	289,492.35 kWh	1.89 bn kWh	22,270.61 kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.68 t	396.84 m t	4,681.11 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Turkey

	France	Turkey
International dialing:	+33	+90
Internet domain:	.fr	.tr

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	TUR total	TUR per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	12,448,604	147
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	82,128,104	969
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	7,093,000	84
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	69,014,332	814
Broadband Internet:	31,463,000	464	18,135,736	214

Healthcare system

Details for France and Turkey

	France	Turkey
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	2.85
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	1.76
Diabetes:	4.8 %	11.1 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.18 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	81.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	30.7 %

Climate

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

	France	Turkey
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	20.5 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	9.3 °C
Water temperature:	15.4 °C	17.5 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	63 %
Rain days:	8.9	6.4
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	6.7

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
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France

Native languages

	France	Turkey
French:	93.6 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	87.6 %
Kurdish:	n/a	10.6 %
Arabic:	2.5 %	1.4 %
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	1.5 %	0.4 %

Religions

	France	Turkey
Islam:	8.0 %	99.0 %
Christianity:	64.0 %	0.2 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.7 %	0.1 %
Buddhism:	0.6 %	n/a
Yazidism:	n/a	0.1 %
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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