Country comparison France : United States

General information

	France	United States
Region:	Western Europe	North America
Area:	549,087 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	French	English
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	843 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Paris	Washington, D.C.

Population

	France	United States
Population:	67,392,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	122.7	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	11.20 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	9.10 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	United States
Political stability:	72	63
Civil rights:	83	81
Health:	91	71
Climate:	41	66
Cost of Living:	28	38
Popularity:	71	67

Economy

	France	United States
Currency:	Euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	8.1 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	97.48 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	36.60 %
Average income:	39,500 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	71 (good)	67 (moderate)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,630,318 M US$	39.03 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.59 M US$
Gross national product:	2,661,230 M US$	39.49 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.53 M US$
Exported goods:	759,610 M US$	11.27 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	808,172 M US$	11.99 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.63 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	29,640 km	0.44 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Harbours:	548	0.008	3,627	0.011
Airports:	464	0.007	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.69 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.85 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	61.41 bn kWh	911,241.41 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	19.90 bn kWh	295,289.11 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	309.96 m t	4,599.39 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	France	United States
International dialing:	+33	+1
Internet domain:	.fr	.us

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	560	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1080	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	17,266,000	256	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	56,163,972	833	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	454	121,176,000	368

Healthcare system

	France	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	5.91	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	2.59
Diabetes:	4.8 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.20 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	12.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	33.6 %	23.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: France and United States

	France	United States
Daytime temperatures:	16.7 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	15.4 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	67 %
Rain days:	8.9	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.4	7.2

Native languages

	France	United States
French:	93.6 %	0.7 %
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Spanish:	0.4 %	10.7 %
Arabic:	2.5 %	n/a
Portuguese:	1.2 %	0.2 %
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Italian:	0.4 %	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	1.5 %	2.6 %

Religions

	France	United States
Christianity:	64.0 %	78.5 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	n/a
Islam:	8.0 %	1.1 %
Jewry:	0.7 %	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	0.6 %	0.7 %
other:	2.7 %	15.3 %