Country profile · FR
France
101 NUTS-3 regions · aggregated from free, no-auth EU public data. Browse all regions →
Population
68.9m
GDP
€2.92T
GDP per capita
€42,374
Population density
108 /km²
Unemployment
7.8%
pop-weighted
Employment
75.3%
pop-weighted
Area
638,487.3 km²
NUTS-3 regions
101
Country indicators · 72 metrics (sums & pop-weighted averages)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€2.61T
country total
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€38.0B
country total
GVA — industry (B–E)
€356.5B
country total
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€279.3B
country total
GVA — construction (F)
€146.0B
country total
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€576.7B
country total
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€24,365
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
39,157 PPS
pop-weighted avg
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€42,529
pop-weighted avg
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€3.76T
country total · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€326.4B
country total · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€8.72T
country total · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€380.3B
country total
GVA — information & communication (J)
€144.7B
country total
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€848.2B
country total
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€644.6B
country total
Labour market
Employment, total persons
30.6m
country total
Self-employed persons
3.4m
country total
Employment in manufacturing (C)
2.8m
country total
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
75.0%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
20.3%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
5.3m
country total
Enterprise births
743.5k
country total
Enterprise deaths
579k
country total
3-year enterprise survival rate
6.5%
pop-weighted avg
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
2.4k
country total
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
196 /M
pop-weighted avg
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
2.1%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
4.9%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
44.6%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
54.5%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
15.4%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
30.2%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
9.9%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
94.4%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
471.7m
country total
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
523 /1k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
319.9k
country total
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
464.4
pop-weighted avg
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
74.9
pop-weighted avg
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
99
country total
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
42.4m
country total
Population aged 65+
15.1m
country total
Population aged under 15
11.4m
country total
Median age of population
43.1 yrs
pop-weighted avg
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
35.9%
pop-weighted avg
Crude rate of total population change
3.1 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
2.8 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude birth rate
9.6 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude death rate
9.3 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Live births
660.1k
country total
Deaths
641.2k
country total
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
62.9%
pop-weighted avg
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.61
pop-weighted avg
Population density (persons per km²)
1,349 /km²
pop-weighted avg
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
20.6%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
83.1 yrs
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
540 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
850 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
217 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.2 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
82.8 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
444 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,911 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
49 /M
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
244 m
pop-weighted avg
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
16 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
33 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
6 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
14.3
pop-weighted avg
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
13.6
pop-weighted avg
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
52.6
pop-weighted avg
Largest regions by GDP
FR101
Paris
pop 2.1m · gdp €279.9B
FR105
Hauts-de-Seine
pop 1.7m · gdp €198.2B
FRK26
Rhône
pop 1.9m · gdp €111.4B
FRL04
Bouches-du-Rhône
pop 2.1m · gdp €96.2B
FRE11
Nord
pop 2.6m · gdp €93.8B
FR106
Seine-Saint-Denis
pop 1.7m · gdp €82.2B
FRJ23
Haute-Garonne
pop 1.5m · gdp €73.3B
FRI12
Gironde
pop 1.7m · gdp €73.1B
FR107
Val-de-Marne
pop 1.4m · gdp €70.3B
FR103
Yvelines
pop 1.5m · gdp €69.3B
FRG01
Loire-Atlantique
pop 1.5m · gdp €64.0B
FR104
Essonne
pop 1.4m · gdp €63.2B