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United Kingdom vs. France

How the United Kingdom and France compare on income per person, population, life expectancy, internet use, electricity, unemployment, inflation, carbon emissions, health spending and college enrollment, each next to the world figure and linked to its chart, where you'll find its source, its date and every country's numbers.

The biggest differences

  • Inflation is 1.3 percentage points higher in the United Kingdom (3.3%) than in France (2%).
  • The unemployment rate is 2.8 percentage points higher in France (7.5%) than in the United Kingdom (4.7%).
  • GDP per person is 16% higher in the United Kingdom ($53,341) than in France ($46,103).

The two are about the same on the population and the share of people with electricity.

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Figures are from the World Bank's World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0), for the newest year most countries have reported; many are estimates, and they are revised as new data comes in. GDP per person is in US dollars at each year's exchange rates, not adjusted for differences in prices, and so is health spending. Two figures are called about the same when GDP, population, emissions or health spending differ by less than 5%, life expectancy by less than a year, unemployment or inflation by less than 1 percentage point, or another share by less than 2 percentage points.

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