 FRENCH TRANSLATION SERVICES
FRANCE - French Republic, République Francaise
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LANGUAGE FACTS:
| National or official language: |
French |
| Other spoken languages: |
declining regional dialects and languages
• Provencal
• Breton
• Alsatian
• Corsican
• Catalan
• Basque
• Flemish |
| Literacy: |
Definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99%
male: 99%
female: 99% (1980 est.) |
THE PEOPLE:
| Population: |
60,424,213 (July 2004 est.) |
| Structure: |
0-14 years: 18.5% (male 5,724,185; female 5,446,716)
15-64 years: 65.1% (male 19,698,497; female 19,663,776)
65 years and over: 16.4% (male 4,049,970; female 5,841,069) (2004 est.) |
| Ethnic groups: |
Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, Basque minorities |
| Religions: |
Roman Catholic 83%-88%, Protestant 2%, Jewish 1%, Muslim 5%-10%, unaffiliated 4% |
ECONOMICS:
Currency: euro (EUR)
| Major exports 2002 |
% of total |
Major imports 2002 |
% of total |
| Intermediate goods |
30.6 |
Intermediate goods |
31.9 |
| Investment goods |
23.4 |
Investment goods |
21.6 |
| Consumer goods |
15.5 |
Consumer goods |
17.7 |
| Motor vehicles & transport equipment |
15.5 |
Motor vehicles & transport equipment |
11.9 |
| Leading markets 2002 |
% of total |
Leading suppliers 2002 |
% of total |
| Germany |
15.0 |
Germany |
17.4 |
| Spain |
10.2 |
Italy |
9.4 |
| UK |
9.7 |
Spain |
7.6 |
Italy
|
9.3 |
Belgium-Luxembourg |
7.5 |
|
GDP (US$ bn; market exchange rate)
|
1,763 |
Real GDP growth |
2.2 |
| GDP (US$ bn; PPP) |
1,709 |
Real domestic demand growth |
2.6 |
| GDP per head (US$; market exchange rate) |
29,302 |
Inflation |
1.6 |
| GDP per head (US$; purchasing power parity) |
28,411 |
FDI inflows/GDP |
3.3 |
THE COUNTRY
| Government type: |
republic |
| Capital: |
Paris |
| Independence: |
486 (unified by Clovis) |
| National holiday: |
Bastille Day, 14 July (1789) |
| Legal system: |
civil law system with indigenous concepts; review of administrative but not legislative acts |
| Suffrage: |
18 years of age; universal |
For more information visit:
Ethnologue - Language background on FRANCE
Country trivias - FRANCE
Economics - FRANCE
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