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FRANCE
By Elizabeth Osuna
POPULATION
PAID MATERNITY
LEAVE
France:
Length Of Maternity
Leave: 16 Weeks
Percentage Of Wages
Paid: 100
DEMOGRAPHICS
• Ethnic Groups: Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese,
Basque minorities
• Religions: Christian (overwhelmingly Roman Catholic) 63-66%, Muslim 7-9%, Jewish
.5-.75%, Buddhist .5-.75%, other .5-1.0%, none 23-28%
• In 1872 passed law to prevent the government from collecting information regarding
ethnicity or religion to prevent exploitation
HEALTH
France
• Health expenditures: (#9)
11.7% of GDP (2012)
United States
• Health expenditures: (#1)
17.9% of GDP (2012)
• Life expectancy at birth: (#15)
• Life expectancy at birth: (#42)
total population: 81.66 years
total population: 79.56 years
male: 78.55 years
male: 77.11 years
female: 84.91 years (2014 est.)
female: 81.94 years
• Physicians density: 3.18 physicians/1,000
population (2012)
• Physicians density: 2.45 physicians/1,000
population (2011)
• Obesity - adult prevalence rate: (#108)
• Obesity - adult prevalence rate: (#18)
18.2% (2008)
33% (2008)
HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
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INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
PARTICIPATION
• ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), Arctic Council (observer),
Australia Group, BDEAC, BIS, BSEC (observer), CBSS (observer), CE, CERN, EAPC,
EBRD, ECB, EIB, EITI (implementing country), EMU, ESA, EU, FAO, FATF, FZ, G-5, G-7,
G-8, G-10, G-20, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA,
IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IGAD (partners), IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, InOC, Interpol, IOC,
IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINURSO, MINUSMA, MINUSTAH,
MONUSCO, NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OIF, OPCW, OSCE, Pacific
Alliance (observer), Paris Club, PCA, PIF (partner), Schengen Convention, SELEC
(observer), SPC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, Union Latina, UNMIL,
UNOCI, UNRWA, UNSC (permanent), UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs),
WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC
BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT
• Rebuplic
• Executive: chief of state:
• President Francois HOLLANDE (since 15 May 2012) (French Socialist Party)
• head of government: Prime Minister Manuel VALLS (since 1 April 2014)
• cabinet: Council of Ministers
• Legislative
• Senate 348 seats
• Judicial
• Court of Cassation or Cour de Cassation
POLITICAL PARTIES
• Europe Ecology - The Greens or EELV
• French Communist Party or PCF
• Left Front Coalition or FDG
• Left Party or PG
• Left Radical Party or PRG
• Movement for France or MPF
• National Front or FN
• New Anticapitalist Party or NPA
• New Center or NC
• Radical Party
• Rally for France or RPF
• Republican and Citizen Movement or MRC
• Socialist Party or PS
• United Republic or RS
• Union for a Popular Movement or UMP
• Union des Democrates et Independants or UDI
• Worker's Struggle
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS
• Exports: Commodities
• Imports: Commodities
machinery and transportation equipment,
aircraft, plastics, chemicals,
pharmaceutical products, iron and steel,
beverages
machinery and equipment, vehicles,
crude oil, aircraft, plastics, chemicals
• Exports: Partners
Germany 16.6%, Belgium 7.8%, Italy
7.2%, UK 7%, Spain 6.9%, US 5.8%,
Netherlands 4.1% (2013)
• Imports: Partners
Germany 19.6%, Belgium 11.4%, Italy
7.6%, Netherlands 7.5%, Spain 6.8%, UK
4.9%, China 4.8% (2013)
#47. France Military
expenditures:
#9. US Military expenditures:
• 1.8% of GDP (2014)
• 4.35% of GDP (2012)
• 1.9% of GDP (2013)
• 4.75% of GDP (2011)
• 1.9% of GDP (2012)
• 4.35% of GDP (2010)
GDP COMPOSITION
France
United Sates
• agriculture: 1.7%
• agriculture: 1.6%
• industry: 19.4%
• industry: 20.7%
• services: 78.9% (2014 est.)
• services: 77.7%
ECONOMY
France
• France's leaders remain committed to a
capitalism in which they maintain social equity
by means of laws, tax policies, and social
spending that mitigate economic inequality.
• France has the eurozone's second-largest
economy and is a leading industrial power, but
has struggled to emerge from recession since
2008
• 60% of wealth concentrated in Paris
United States
• The onrush of technology largely explains the
gradual development of a "two-tier labor
market" in which those at the bottom
lack the education and the
professional/technical skills of those
at the top and, more and more, fail to
get comparable pay raises, health
insurance coverage, and other
benefits.
ECONOMY
France
United States
• Unemployment rate: #110
• Unemployment rate: #65
• 9.7% (2014 est.)
• 6.2% (2014 est.)
• 9.9% (2013 est.) note: includes overseas
territories
• 7.4% (2013 est.)
• Population Below Poverty Line: 7.9%
• Taxes: 51.9% of GDP (#11)
• Public Debt: (#16)
• 95.5% of GDP (2014 est.)
• 92.2% of GDP (2013 est.)
• Population Below Poverty Line: 15.1%
• Taxes: 17.4% of GDP (#179)
• Public Debt: (#39)
• 71.2% of GDP (2014 est.)
• 72.3% of GDP (2013 est.)
• Current Account Balance: (#185)
• Current Account Balance: (#193)
• -$33.9 billion (2014 est.)
• -$385.8 billion (2014 est.)
• -$40.2 billion (2014 est.)
• -$400.3 billion (2013 est.)
ECONOMY
• Strengths
• Weaknesses
• Quality of infrastructure and public services
• Insufficient number of exporting companies,
loss of competitiveness and market share
• Skilled workforce, demographic dynamism
• Competitive international groups (energy,
aeronautics and space, environment,
pharmaceuticals, luxury goods, agri-food,
distribution)
• World’s top tourist destination and leading
agricultural power
• High savings level, low household debt
• Insufficient innovation effort, low level of
product range
• Low employment rate of young and older
workers
• High public debt
ENVIRONMENT
• 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21) The goal of this conference, which is ambitious but
necessary, is to limit the effects of climate change to below 2°C. France has made the fight
against climate change its major national cause for 2015.
• Carbon Emissions (tons per capita)
• France: (#65) 7 (1990) -----> 6.1 (2010)
• United States: (#12) 19.1(1990)---- 17.2 (2010)
• Ecological Footprint (global hectares per person)
• France: 5.01 hectares
• United States: 8.00 hectares
WORKS CITED
• Central Intelligence Agency. Central Intelligence Agency. Web. 21 Apr.
2015. <https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-worldfactbook/geos/fr.html>.
• "France: Risk Assessment." GlobalEDGE: Your Source for Global
Business Knowledge. Web. 23 Apr. 2015.
<http://globaledge.msu.edu/countries/france/risk>.
• "Geography: French Overseas Territories." : Information and Maps.
Web. 21 Apr. 2015. <http://www.france.fr/en/regions-andcities/geography-french-overseas-territories.html>.