France
France in numbers
38 measures of France from 1789 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending2.03% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$64.5B in 2025
- Military spending per person$1,021 in 2025
- Military share of state spending3.5% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel304,000 people in 2020
- National power1.09% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports236 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports3.37 billion TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare France with…
- France vs India
- France vs China
- France vs United States
- France vs Indonesia
- France vs Pakistan
- France vs Nigeria
- France vs Brazil
- France vs Bangladesh
- France vs Russia
- France vs Ethiopia
- France vs Mexico
- France vs Japan
- France vs Egypt
- France vs Philippines
- France vs Congo - Kinshasa
- France vs Vietnam
- France vs Iran
- France vs Türkiye
- France vs Germany
- France vs Thailand
- France vs Tanzania
- France vs United Kingdom
- France vs South Africa
- France vs Italy
- France vs Kenya
- France vs Myanmar (Burma)
- France vs Colombia
- France vs South Korea
- France vs Sudan
- France vs Spain
- France vs Argentina
- France vs Canada
- France vs Ukraine
- France vs Uzbekistan
- France vs Saudi Arabia
- France vs Poland
- France vs Australia
- France vs Kazakhstan
- France vs Romania
- France vs Netherlands
- France vs Belgium
- France vs United Arab Emirates
- France vs Czechia
- France vs Portugal
- France vs Tajikistan
- France vs Sweden
- France vs Greece
- France vs Azerbaijan
- France vs Israel
- France vs Austria
- France vs Switzerland
- France vs Singapore
- France vs Ireland
- France vs Luxembourg
- France vs Andorra
- France vs Monaco
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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