Country profile · FR

France

101 NUTS-3 regions · aggregated from free, no-auth EU public data. Browse all regions → · Screen sites in France →

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 · 89 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

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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

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Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)

€326.4B

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Compensation of employees (total wage bill)

€8.72T

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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

Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)

€2.63T

country total

Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)

€94,080

pop-weighted avg

Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)

€655.7B

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%

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Youth unemployment rate (15–24)

20.3%

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Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)

7.7%

pop-weighted avg

Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)

32.5m

country total

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

R&D expenditure as % of GDP

2.1%

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Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)

4.9%

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R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE)

1.7%

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Education

Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64

44.6%

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Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)

54.5%

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Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)

15.4%

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Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)

30.2%

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Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)

9.9%

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Digital

Households with internet access

94.4%

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Tourism

Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)

471.7m

country total

Mobility

Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants

523 /1k

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Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)

22.4k kt

pop-weighted avg

Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.

305.5k

country total

Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²)

28 km/1000km²

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Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).

443.5

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.

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

Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)

69.7m

country total

Social

At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)

20.6%

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Life expectancy at birth

83.1 yrs

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At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional)

16.2%

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Health

Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants

534 /100k

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Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)

850 /100k

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Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)

217 /100k

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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

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Governance & institutions

Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)

1.46

pop-weighted avg

Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)

1.27

pop-weighted avg

Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)

1.02

pop-weighted avg

Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)

1.39

pop-weighted avg

Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)

0.02

pop-weighted avg

Energy

Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)

€0.107/kWh

pop-weighted avg

Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)

€0.053/kWh

pop-weighted avg

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

Industrial facilities per 100k inhabitants (E-PRTR)

113 /100k

pop-weighted avg

Population in the 100-year river floodplain (% of residents, EFAS × census grid)

6.6%

pop-weighted avg

Largest regions by GDP

FR101

Paris

pop 2.1m · gdp €279.9B