Population, 2021: 67,749,632
Gross National Income, Atlas method (Current USD) (Billions), 2021: $2,991.55
GNI per capita, Atlas method (Current USD), 2021: $44,160
Income Share Held by Lowest 20% (2018): 8.0%
Gross Domestic Product (Current USD) (Billions), 2021: $2,957.88

Source: World Bank. Country Profile: France. World Development Indicators. Last accessed Jan. 25, 2023.

Gross Domestic Product Per Capita (Current USD), 2010-2019: $40,496
Share of Household Income, 2010-2019:
    Bottom 40%: 20.9%; Top 20%: 40.8%; Bottom 20%: 8.0%
Gini Coefficient, 2010-2019: 29.2
Palma Index of Income Inequality, 2010-2019: 1.1

Source: United Nations Children’s Fund, The State of the World’s Children 2021: On My Mind – Promoting, protecting and caring for children’s mental health, UNICEF, New York, October 2021.

“France is the fifth largest economy in the world and the second largest in Europe. Thanks to its overseas departments and territories, France has the second largest exclusive economic zone in the world in terms of area, second only to that of the United States.

“In 2014, the GDP of France exceeded €2 trillion (Table 1.2). The per capita GDP was €27 643 in 2012, ranking 11th among EU27 countries. The budget deficit was 4.8% of GDP in 2012 compared with 5.3% in 2011 and 7.1% in 2010.”

Source: Chevreul K, Berg Brigham K, Durand-Zaleski I, Hernández-Quevedo C. France: Health system review. Health Systems in Transition, 2015; 17(3): 1–218.

“In 2011, 25.8 million people (56.5% of the metropolitan population) were active in the labour market (Table 1.2). Women represented 47.7% of the country’s workforce, and their participation in the labour market has increased dramatically in recent decades. Between 2008 and 2009, unemployment increased by 23% (from 7.4% to 9.1%), reflecting the effect of the economic crisis. Since then, the rate has continued to climb despite a slight dip in 2011 to 9.2%, reaching 9.8% in 2014 (INSEE, 2015b).

“In the past 25 years, the structure of employment has moved away from agriculture (which today accounts for only 2.9% of the workforce) and manufacturing and construction (currently 20.9% of the workforce) towards the commercial and services sectors, which now employ 19.5 million people (75.8% of the workforce) (INSEE, 2013a). In 2012, 14% of the population was below the poverty level, defined as 60% of median income. Income differs across the population: the income ratio of the richest 10% and the poorest 10% was 3.6 in 2011, and the Gini index was 0.3 in 2012 (Table 1.2). In comparison with other European countries, income is more equally distributed than in Spain, the United Kingdom or Italy, but less so than in Sweden and Germany (Eurostat, 2013).”

Source: Chevreul K, Berg Brigham K, Durand-Zaleski I, Hernández-Quevedo C. France: Health system review. Health Systems in Transition, 2015; 17(3): 1–218.

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Page last updated Jan. 25, 2023 by Doug McVay, Editor.