France – FR

EU regions: France

Indicator	Period	Value
Labour market policy
public expenditure on labour market policies as % of GDP	2021	3.278
public expenditure on active labour market policies	2021	0.564
Life long learning
life long learning participation	2024	15.2
Precarious work
percentage of employees ususally working on Sunday	2023	14.8
percentage of employees ususally working at nights	2023	3.8
percentage of employees with temporary contracts	2025q1	12.7
Part time jobs and flexible employment
working hours on full time job	2025q1	38.8
percentage of workers usually working from home	2024	11.3
percentage of part time workers	2025q1	16.73
percentage of part time workers, men	2024	8.05
percentage of part time workers, women	2025q1	25.67
Minimum and average wage
share of salaries on GDP	2025q1	51.8
minimum monthly was as aproportion of average monthly earnings in industry and services	2023	47.4
monthly minimum wage in €	2025q1	1802
monthly minimum wage in PPS	2025q1	1606
annual net earnings of a full-time single worker without children earning an average wage in PPS	2024	28 832
Gender differences
gender pay gap	2023	12.2
employment of mothers of more than 3 children	2024	52.9
healthy life expectancy of men vs. women	2023	106.03
gender gap in employment rate	2024	92.74
gender gap in unemployment rate	2024	96
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2025q1	29.5
unemployment rate of youth with secondary education	2025q1	18.9
unemployment rate of youth with tertiary education	2025q1	13.2
NEET	2024	10.7
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2023	99
HICP inflation	June 2025	0.9
Payable interest of public debt as % od GDP	2024	2.1
Employment
employment rate	2024	69
Social exclusion
people at risk of poverty or social exclusion	2020	18.6

More on wikipedia wikidata Q142 on OpenStreetMap France slovensky: FR

Subregions: Île-de-France, Centre-Val de Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Normandy, Hauts-de-France, Grand Est, Pays de la Loire, Brittany, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitania, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Corsica, overseas department and region of France

Unemployment

Indicator	Period	Value
Unemployment
unemployment rate	2024	7.5
youth unemployment rate	2025q1	18.6
unemployment rate of low educated people	2025q1	14
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment	2025q1	1.7
share of long term unemployed	2024	23

Composition of population according to age group, education and economic activity, France

Age group	Low education	Middle education	High education
Y20-29	P: 732.6 E: 321.9; U: 129.0; I: 281.7	P: 3438.1 E: 2130.4; U: 329.8; I: 977.9	P: 3225.7 E: 2536.2; U: 238.9; I: 450.6
Y30-39	P: 949.1 E: 555.3; U: 88.5; I: 305.3	P: 3054.0 E: 2478.6; U: 197.0; I: 378.4	P: 4019.9 E: 3589.6; U: 177.5; I: 252.8
Y40-49	P: 1161.9 E: 747.1; U: 95.1; I: 319.7	P: 3263.6 E: 2709.7; U: 182.1; I: 371.8	P: 3911.1 E: 3568.6; U: 132.2; I: 210.3
Y50-59	P: 1765.8 E: 1108.7; U: 103.3; I: 553.8	P: 3990.2 E: 3203.4; U: 164.6; I: 622.2	P: 3070.6 E: 2752.5; U: 99.0; I: 219.1
Y60-69	P: 2425.1 E: 476.7; U: 29.6; I: 1918.8	P: 3547.6 E: 806.1; U: 59.1; I: 2682.4	P: 2054.6 E: 747.8; U: 42.0; I: 1264.8

Note: in thousands in 2023, according to labour force sample survey. P – total population, E – employed, U – unemployed, I – number of economically inactive

Demographics

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2024	68 467 360
population density	2023	107.9
old-age dependency ratio	2024	34.8
Population ageing
unemployment rate – over 55 years	2025q1	5.1
aggregate replacement ratio	2024	0.61
aggregate replacement ratio – females	2024	0.59
life expectancy of a 50 year old	2023	34.8
healty life expectancy at 50 years	2023	20.5

Employment by sectors, France

NACE r2		%	NACE r2		%
A	679.9	2%	B-E	3653.2	13%
F	1903.3	7%	G-I	6355.7	22%
J	1034.6	4%	K	973.8	3%
L	382.6	1%	M_N	3248.9	11%
NRP	533.9	2%	O-Q	8554.7	30%
R-U	1644.5	6%	TOTAL	28 965	100%

Data for the period year 2024. Source of the data is Eurostat, table [lfst_r_lfe2en2].

From Wikipedia:

France (French: [fʁɑ̃s] (listen)), officially the French Republic (French: République française, pronounced [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛːz] (listen)), is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered by Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany to the northeast, Switzerland and Italy to the east, and Andorra and Spain to the south. The overseas territories include French Guiana in South America and several islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. The country's 18 integral regions (five of which are situated overseas) span a combined area of 643,801 square kilometres (248,573 sq mi) and a total population of 67.02 million (as of July 2019). France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. Other major urban areas include Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lille and Nice.

During the Iron Age, what is now metropolitan France was inhabited by the Gauls, a Celtic people. Rome annexed the area in 51 BC, holding it until the arrival of Germanic Franks in 476, who formed the Kingdom of Francia. The Treaty of Verdun of 843 partitioned Francia into East Francia, Middle Francia and West Francia.

Other: Finland, France

Neighbours: Italy, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium

Subregions: Île-de-France, Centre-Val de Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Normandy, Hauts-de-France, Grand Est, Pays de la Loire, Brittany, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitania, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Corsica, overseas department and region of France

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - France – FR, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​PFR, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164

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