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 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
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 80 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 86 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 40.6 years	Ø 37.4 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)
Visit also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life (in german only)

	France	United States
Political stability:	72	68
Civil rights:	83	81
Health:	94	74
Climate:	40	62
Cost of Living:	22	16
Popularity:	72	72

Economy

	France	United States
Currency:	Euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	8.6 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	0.48 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	105.41 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	36.60 %
Average income:	42,290 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	69 (moderate)	67 (moderate)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,603,004 M US$	38.63 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	2,844,112 M US$	42.20 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	746,910 M US$	11.08 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	803,659 M US$	11.93 M US$	2,808,955 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:	545	0.008	3,652	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:	37,797,000	561	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	72,040,000	1069	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	17,266,000	256	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	56,163,972	833	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	454	120,531,000	366

Healthcare system

	France	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	6.50	2.90
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:	11.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	34.6 %	25.1 %

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 %
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Vietnamese:	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 %