HISTORICAL TIMELINE / FRA 2016
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French Republic
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2006 ↔ 2016Records: 2016 · map: shared geographic contextDated settlement, trade, energy and network layers are not supplied for this year.
SHARED GEOGRAPHIC CONTEXT
Undated fixture · provenance attached
Undated fixture · provenance attached
Two scopes stay visible: metropolitan France for the main map, whole Republic for national totals.
relief water cities
02SNAPSHOT IN DETAIL / 2016
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01Connectivity
3 / 3 indicators
Mobile subscriptions
Fixed broadband
02Settlement
1 / 1 indicators
Urban population by residence
03Demography
3 / 3 indicators
Fertility
Annual population growth
Life expectancy at birth
04Research & innovation
3 / 3 indicators
R&D expenditure
R&D expenditure, amount
Nominal spending is in different currencies; no direct France–China amount comparison is supplied.
Resident patent applications
05Diplomatic reach
4 / 5 indicators
Embassies
Consular posts
Permanent representations / other missions
Total diplomatic posts
Countries with diplomatic / consular presence
Not supplied for 2016
06Military & strategy
3 / 5 indicators
Military personnel quoted by Maxi Atlas
Not supplied for 2016
Personnel rank quoted by Maxi Atlas
Not supplied for 2016
Military expenditure
2006 uses constant 2005 USD and 2016 uses current USD. Do not calculate a cross-year spending change until the price basis is harmonised.
Military expenditure / GDP
SIPRI spending rank
07Trade & flows
15 / 15 indicators
Trade openness, goods + services
Exports of goods + services
Imports of goods + services
Merchandise exports
Merchandise imports
Export share · Germany
Export share · Spain
Export share · United States
Export share · Italy
Export share · United Kingdom
Import share · Germany
Import share · China
Import share · Italy
Import share · United States
Import share · Belgium
08Energy dependency
1 / 1 indicators
Net energy imports
09Cultural reach
4 / 4 indicators
Alliance Française organisations
2 source variantsCensus dates, inclusion criteria and organisational/student definitions vary. No unqualified cross-year growth or France–China ranking.
Alliance Française countries
2 source variantsCensus dates, inclusion criteria and organisational/student definitions vary. No unqualified cross-year growth or France–China ranking.
Alliance Française total learners
2 source variants482,000 annual-report learners and more than 560,000 in unspecified contemporary reporting coexist. FLE-only learners are a distinct measure.
French-as-a-foreign-language learners
KEY FACTS / 2016
- Capital
- Paris
- Calling code
- +33
- Writing system
- Latin alphabet
- Demonym
- French
- Time structure
- Metropolitan France: UTC+1 standard / UTC+2 summer; overseas territories span additional time zones
Key facts are recorded separately from the indicator series. Attribution: supplied France 2016 notes, “Structured Key Facts”.
03DATA CONTRACT
Every date keeps its history.
2016 is the valid period; source publication and reconstruction dates vary. Open a metric to inspect its source, scope and any comparability caveat.
37indicators available
11source records
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