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IndicatorFRAFranceEurope & Central Asia
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.92rank #17
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile72.5rank #29
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.79rank #7
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.72rank #17
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.96rank #5
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile74.7rank #28
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.92rank #17
Military spending% GDP2.1%rank #53
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.6rank #12
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile61.8rank #123
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile72.9rank #27
Rule of Law0-100 percentile73.8rank #39
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.97rank #14
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.87rank #7
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.8rank #9
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile77rank #27
Women in parliament% seats36.2%rank #40
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.93rank #11
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment2.3%rank #150
Agriculture value added% GDP1.4%rank #140
Annual working hours per workerhours1,487.1rank #119
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker585,210.7rank #8
Current account balance% GDP-0.27%rank #41
Employment-to-population ratio%50.6%rank #135
FDI net inflows% GDP2.2%rank #42
GDPcurrent US$3.37Trank #7
GDP growth%0.84%rank #162
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$48,985.7rank #24
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $55,124.5rank #27
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $55,060.2rank #24
Government expenditure% GDP47.3%rank #5
Gross capital formation% GDP21.9%rank #78
Gross savings% GDP21.5%rank #47
High-technology exports% manuf. exports23.1%rank #23
Human capital indexindex3.2rank #38
Industry value added% GDP16.8%rank #131
Inflation%0.94%rank #33
Labour force participation rate%54.8%rank #138
Personal remittances received% GDP1.2%rank #60
R&D expenditure% GDP2.2%rank #17
Researchers in R&Dper million5,368.6rank #18
Tax revenue% GDP22.8%rank #23
Total factor productivity (current PPPs, USA=1)index (USA=1)0.91rank #15
Trade openness% GDP67.2%rank #83
Unemployment% labor force7.5%rank #129
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%7.6%rank #130
Vulnerable employment% employment8.5%rank #30
Youth unemployment% ages 15-2418.9%rank #128
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-2419%rank #129
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop100%rank #7
Basic sanitation access% pop98.6%rank #47
Child mortalityper 1000.43rank #19
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal3,489.5rank #23
DTP3 immunization coverage%96%rank #4
Health spending% GDP11.5%rank #3
Infant mortalityper 1k births3.4rank #17
Life expectancyyears83rank #24
Maternal mortalityper 100k7rank #7
Measles immunization% children95%rank #5
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%95%rank #5
Physiciansper 1k3.3rank #44
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m38.2rank #32
Road traffic deathsper 100k5.1rank #18
Smoking prevalence% adults33.6%rank #122
Suicide mortality rateper 100k16.6rank #159
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k7.8rank #35
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births4.3rank #35
Undernourishment% pop2.5%rank #1
Education
Education spending% GDP5.3%rank #37
Expected years of schoolingyears16.1rank #44
Mean years of schoolingyears11.8rank #46
Primary enrollment% gross103.4%rank #40
Secondary enrollment% gross103.8%rank #28
Tertiary enrollment% gross71.5%rank #27
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,0009.7rank #157
Fertility ratebirths/woman1.6rank #135
Median age of populationyears41.8rank #33
Net migration rateper 1,0001.4rank #72
Populationpeople68.72Mrank #23
Population growth%0.25%rank #158
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years86.6rank #20
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands68,219.7rank #30
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age62.7rank #62
Urban population%78.8%rank #54
Climate
CO₂ emissionst264.16Mrank #24
CO₂ per capitat4rank #81
Electricity access% pop100%rank #1
Electricity from coal% generation0.31%rank #7
Electricity from hydro% generation10.4%rank #47
Electricity from solar% generation5.6%rank #49
Electricity from wind% generation8.2%rank #33
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita6,447.2rank #17
Forest area% land32.5%rank #103
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita5.1rank #99
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh41.5rank #7
Renewable electricity%26.1%rank #56
Renewable energy share%16.2%rank #107
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e346.9rank #165
Society
Asylum seekerspeople455rank #54
Extreme poverty% pop0.1%rank #2
Female labor participation%51.5%rank #108
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 10048.9rank #5
Gender Development Indexratio0.99rank #31
Gender Inequality Index0-10.03rank #10
Gini indexindex31.8rank #16
Homicide rateper 100k1.3rank #37
Human Development Index0-10.92rank #20
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.84rank #22
Internet users% pop88.7%rank #63
Life satisfaction0-106.6rank #33
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.8rank #4
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #42
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #11
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #10
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #15
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people788,419rank #10
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people166rank #38
Youth NEET rate%12.6%rank #53
Risk
Battle-related deaths (state-based)deaths/year4rank #4
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths0rank #1
Hazard & exposure0-102.8rank #23
Human hazard & exposure0-101.4rank #15
INFORM risk score0-102.6rank #15
Lack of coping capacity0-102.1rank #13
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-100.9rank #6
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-103.2rank #15
Natural hazard & exposure0-104rank #27
Organized-violence deaths (total)deaths/year3rank #3
Socio-economic vulnerability0-100.3rank #4
Vulnerability0-103.1rank #20
Vulnerable groups0-105.2rank #47
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