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:	67,060,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	122.1	33.4
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:	11.30 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	9.20 ‰	8.60 ‰
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:	71	72
Civil rights:	85	83
Health:	94	74
Climate:	41	64
Cost of Living:	29	34
Popularity:	83	86

Economy

	France	United States
Currency:	Euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	8.6 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	1.11 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	105.69 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	36.60 %
Average income:	42,450 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	69 (moderate)	67 (moderate)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,715,518 M US$	40.49 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	2,846,911 M US$	42.45 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	891,182 M US$	13.29 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	919,632 M US$	13.71 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.71 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Railways:	29,640 km	0.44 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Harbours:	552	0.008	3,673	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	6.72 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.89 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	61.41 bn kWh	915,748.64 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	19.90 bn kWh	296,749.68 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	303.28 m t	4,522.46 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 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	564	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	72,043,000	1074	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	17,266,000	257	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	55,887,509	833	286,441,830	873

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 %	0.22 %
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:	16.8 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	15.4 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	67 %
Rain days:	9.0	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 %
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 %