France – FR

EU regions: France

Indicator	Period	Value
Labour market policy
public expenditure on labour market policies as % of GDP	2023	2.489
public expenditure on active labour market policies	2023	0.548
Life long learning
life long learning participation	2025	15.5
Precarious work
percentage of employees ususally working on Sunday	2025	14.6
percentage of employees ususally working at nights	2025	3.9
percentage of employees with temporary contracts	2025q4	12.9
Part time jobs and flexible employment
working hours on full time job	2025q4	38.2
percentage of workers usually working from home	2025	11.3
percentage of part time workers	2025q4	16.77
percentage of part time workers, men	2025q4	8.18
percentage of part time workers, women	2025q4	25.65
Minimum and average wage
share of salaries on GDP	2025q4	51.3
minimum monthly was as aproportion of average monthly earnings in industry and services	2024	47.1
monthly minimum wage in €	2026q1	1823
monthly minimum wage in PPS	2026q1	1639
annual net earnings of a full-time single worker without children earning an average wage in PPS	2024	29 092
Gender differences
gender pay gap	2024	11.8
employment of mothers of more than 3 children	2025	56.9
healthy life expectancy of men vs. women	2023	106.03
gender gap in employment rate	2025	92.92
gender gap in unemployment rate	2025q4	92.86
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2025	33.4
unemployment rate of youth with secondary education	2025q4	22.1
unemployment rate of youth with tertiary education	2025q4	15.6
NEET	2025	10.8
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2025	98
HICP inflation	December 2025	0.7
Payable interest of public debt as % od GDP	2024	2.1
Employment
employment rate	2025q4	69.1
Social exclusion
people at risk of poverty or social exclusion	2020	18.6
Health care
Inhabitants per dentist	2023	1460.79
Inhabitants per physician	2023	246.26
Inhabitants per pharmacist	2023	1014.32

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	2025	7.7
youth unemployment rate	2025	19.7
unemployment rate of low educated people	2025q4	15.2
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment	2025	1.7
share of long term unemployed	2025	22.8

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

Age group	Low education	Middle education	High education
Y20-29	P: 711.9 E: 310.3; U: 121.4; I: 280.2	P: 3372.5 E: 2086.7; U: 342.5; I: 943.3	P: 3347.8 E: 2635.2; U: 269.1; I: 443.5
Y30-39	P: 947.1 E: 560.6; U: 88.3; I: 298.2	P: 2989.9 E: 2411.1; U: 202.0; I: 376.8	P: 4114.1 E: 3708.6; U: 174.3; I: 231.2
Y40-49	P: 1174.4 E: 750.5; U: 100.8; I: 323.1	P: 3217.9 E: 2688.0; U: 173.9; I: 356.0	P: 3926.5 E: 3593.3; U: 129.2; I: 204.0
Y50-59	P: 1732.9 E: 1075.0; U: 94.0; I: 563.9	P: 3895.3 E: 3176.3; U: 152.3; I: 566.7	P: 3186.9 E: 2877.7; U: 100.0; I: 209.2
Y60-69	P: 2367.0 E: 485.8; U: 35.1; I: 1846.1	P: 3644.2 E: 921.2; U: 59.4; I: 2663.6	P: 2092.8 E: 814.1; U: 46.2; I: 1232.5

Note: in thousands in 2024, 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	2025	68 882 600
population density	2024	108.5
old-age dependency ratio	2025	35.5
Population ageing
unemployment rate – over 55 years	2025q4	5.6
aggregate replacement ratio	2025	0.61
aggregate replacement ratio – females	2025	0.6
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	683.6	2%	B-E	3807.1	13%
F	1949.6	7%	G-I	6586.1	22%
J	1116.4	4%	K	1003.3	3%
L	392.5	1%	M_N	3265	11%
NRP	367.5	1%	O-Q	8505.1	29%
R-U	1652.3	6%	TOTAL	29 329	100%

Data for the period year 2025. 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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