France vs Spain statistics compared

France has a population of 68.5M (ranked 23/197), compared with 48.8M in Spain (ranked 32/197). France's land area is 208,090 sq mi versus 192,934 sq mi for Spain (ranked 48th vs. 51st).

By GDP, France ranks 7/197 ($3.16T) and Spain ranks 14/197 ($1.72T). By GDP per capita, France ranks 27/197 ($46,150), while Spain ranks 31/197 ($35,297).

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France and Spain economies compared

GDP

France

Spain

Table

Year	GDP
	France	Spain
1960	$61,756,878,990	$12,424,514,014
1961	$66,806,595,975	$14,238,126,760
1962	$74,888,595,286	$16,609,632,791
1963	$83,957,182,115	$19,631,714,760
1964	$93,079,224,076	$21,966,876,027
1965	$100,522,559,916	$25,479,619,607
1966	$108,928,356,519	$29,559,436,183
1967	$117,751,396,249	$32,570,905,397
1968	$128,427,504,709	$32,394,326,464
1969	$140,361,802,782	$37,090,689,288
1970	$146,926,998,937	$40,963,715,237
1971	$164,238,872,973	$46,586,119,760
1972	$201,621,751,625	$59,090,176,029
1973	$262,343,828,816	$78,583,355,226
1974	$283,102,178,123	$97,204,522,642
1975	$356,780,728,163	$114,695,060,870
1976	$368,488,292,816	$118,422,534,195
1977	$406,736,454,934	$132,354,665,936
1978	$501,724,418,605	$160,484,969,618
1979	$608,218,624,730	$214,448,666,336
1980	$694,529,183,483	$232,600,556,974
1981	$609,184,791,792	$202,663,023,968
1982	$578,152,310,610	$195,856,752,991
1983	$553,356,312,936	$170,829,074,246
1984	$525,033,325,828	$171,979,977,230
1985	$547,220,981,165	$180,664,322,896
1986	$764,946,585,851	$251,141,555,186
1987	$926,320,855,615	$318,520,253,335
1988	$1,010,827,662,152	$375,891,716,898
1989	$1,016,742,237,302	$414,460,794,097
1990	$1,257,649,439,827	$536,175,326,477
1991	$1,258,961,748,634	$576,753,902,322
1992	$1,389,663,073,110	$630,465,353,486
1993	$1,314,383,368,080	$524,700,572,624
1994	$1,385,822,778,828	$530,183,651,720
1995	$1,595,219,345,512	$614,170,002,669
1996	$1,598,889,216,566	$642,251,412,058
1997	$1,449,392,222,971	$589,739,772,727
1998	$1,496,906,382,032	$618,731,484,575
1999	$1,486,915,879,702	$634,394,904,387
2000	$1,360,959,069,477	$598,102,854,756
2001	$1,370,376,677,299	$627,798,682,379
2002	$1,492,427,756,382	$708,938,227,244
2003	$1,835,095,983,049	$907,963,217,058
2004	$2,109,792,297,237	$1,069,829,382,515
2005	$2,192,146,403,028	$1,154,667,551,776
2006	$2,317,861,544,691	$1,261,846,683,275
2007	$2,655,816,911,867	$1,476,746,276,855
2008	$2,926,802,941,586	$1,636,115,447,613
2009	$2,700,075,882,519	$1,496,587,590,848
2010	$2,646,230,027,988	$1,427,989,078,917
2011	$2,870,408,553,990	$1,487,568,659,241
2012	$2,683,007,095,787	$1,330,994,811,670
2013	$2,816,077,607,875	$1,362,186,923,158
2014	$2,861,236,112,552	$1,380,244,561,362
2015	$2,442,483,452,643	$1,206,164,777,553
2016	$2,470,407,619,777	$1,243,015,667,917
2017	$2,588,868,323,335	$1,321,754,088,819
2018	$2,781,576,320,884	$1,431,642,809,327
2019	$2,722,793,515,172	$1,403,496,387,686
2020	$2,647,926,055,110	$1,289,783,836,971
2021	$2,966,433,692,008	$1,461,244,901,853
2022	$2,796,302,210,399	$1,446,498,147,749
2023	$3,051,831,611,385	$1,620,090,734,957
2024	$3,162,079,073,496	$1,722,745,978,335

France and Spain economies compared

GDP per capita

France

Spain

Table

Year	GDP per capita
	France	Spain
1960	$1,303	$408
1961	$1,395	$463
1962	$1,548	$535
1963	$1,718	$627
1964	$1,884	$695
1965	$2,015	$797
1966	$2,165	$916
1967	$2,321	$997
1968	$2,513	$978
1969	$2,724	$1,109
1970	$2,825	$1,211
1971	$3,128	$1,361
1972	$3,807	$1,708
1973	$4,914	$2,246
1974	$5,267	$2,748
1975	$6,607	$3,208
1976	$6,795	$3,277
1977	$7,465	$3,625
1978	$9,167	$4,353
1979	$11,063	$5,766
1980	$12,565	$6,204
1981	$10,956	$5,367
1982	$10,360	$5,156
1983	$9,862	$4,475
1984	$9,312	$4,487
1985	$9,657	$4,696
1986	$13,430	$6,509
1987	$16,176	$8,234
1988	$17,550	$9,696
1989	$17,547	$10,674
1990	$21,586	$13,795
1991	$21,501	$14,801
1992	$23,615	$16,101
1993	$22,239	$13,330
1994	$23,360	$13,406
1995	$26,792	$15,461
1996	$26,758	$16,101
1997	$24,169	$14,722
1998	$24,869	$15,382
1999	$24,576	$15,708
2000	$22,341	$14,743
2001	$22,332	$15,368
2002	$24,145	$17,111
2003	$29,480	$21,522
2004	$33,645	$24,925
2005	$34,696	$26,451
2006	$36,432	$28,422
2007	$41,486	$32,652
2008	$45,465	$35,603
2009	$41,728	$32,280
2010	$40,695	$30,659
2011	$43,930	$31,825
2012	$40,864	$28,456
2013	$42,669	$29,229
2014	$43,148	$29,708
2015	$36,702	$25,982
2016	$37,024	$26,756
2017	$38,687	$28,381
2018	$41,418	$30,602
2019	$40,408	$29,787
2020	$39,170	$27,234
2021	$43,725	$30,799
2022	$41,083	$30,270
2023	$44,691	$33,509
2024	$46,150	$35,297

France vs. Spain life expectancy calculator

Life expectancy

France

Spain

Table

Year	Life expectancy, years
	France	Spain
1950	66.4	61.8
1951	66.1	61.5
1952	67.4	64.8
1953	67.3	65.7
1954	68.2	66.9
1955	68.4	66.7
1956	68.5	66.8
1957	68.9	66.6
1958	70.1	68.8
1959	70.2	68.7
1960	70.4	69.2
1961	71	69.6
1962	70.5	69.6
1963	70.3	69.8
1964	71.3	70.5
1965	71.1	70.9
1966	71.5	71.2
1967	71.5	71.3
1968	71.5	71.7
1969	71.2	71.1
1970	72.1	72.1
1971	72.1	71.7
1972	72.3	73
1973	72.5	72.7
1974	72.8	73.1
1975	72.9	73.5
1976	73.1	73.8
1977	73.7	74.3
1978	73.8	74.5
1979	74.1	75
1980	74.2	75.5
1981	74.4	75.7
1982	74.8	76.3
1983	74.7	76.1
1984	75.2	76.5
1985	75.3	76.4
1986	75.6	76.7
1987	76.1	77
1988	76.4	76.9
1989	76.5	77
1990	76.8	77
1991	77	77.1
1992	77.3	77.6
1993	77.3	77.7
1994	77.8	78.1
1995	77.9	78.2
1996	78.1	78.3
1997	78.4	78.9
1998	78.6	78.9
1999	78.7	78.9
2000	79	79.4
2001	79.2	79.7
2002	79.4	79.8
2003	79.4	79.7
2004	80.3	80.3
2005	80.3	80.3
2006	80.7	81
2007	81	81
2008	81	81.3
2009	81.2	81.6
2010	81.4	82
2011	81.8	82.2
2012	81.7	82.2
2013	82	82.7
2014	82.4	82.8
2015	82.1	82.6
2016	82.4	83
2017	82.4	83
2018	82.6	83.1
2019	82.7	83.5
2020	82.2	82.2
2021	82.3	83
2022	82.5	82.4
2023	83.3	83.7
2024	83.5	83.8
2025	83.6	84

France and Spain population clocks and comparison

Population

France

Spain

Table

Year	Population
	France	Spain
1960	47,412,964	30,455,000
1961	47,905,982	30,739,250
1962	48,389,516	31,023,366
1963	48,877,567	31,296,651
1964	49,401,492	31,609,195
1965	49,877,725	31,954,292
1966	50,311,637	32,283,194
1967	50,722,791	32,682,947
1968	51,112,980	33,113,134
1969	51,536,014	33,441,054
1970	52,007,169	33,814,531
1971	52,499,553	34,224,490
1972	52,962,356	34,604,469
1973	53,392,161	34,988,947
1974	53,746,571	35,373,335
1975	54,002,853	35,757,900
1976	54,232,383	36,137,812
1977	54,486,467	36,511,638
1978	54,734,030	36,864,898
1979	54,979,851	37,191,330
1980	55,274,184	37,491,165
1981	55,603,353	37,758,631
1982	55,806,789	37,986,012
1983	56,108,330	38,171,525
1984	56,383,085	38,330,364
1985	56,665,619	38,469,512
1986	56,956,002	38,584,624
1987	57,266,167	38,684,815
1988	57,598,186	38,766,939
1989	57,943,062	38,827,764
1990	58,261,012	38,867,322
1991	58,554,242	38,966,376
1992	58,846,584	39,157,685
1993	59,103,094	39,361,262
1994	59,324,863	39,549,108
1995	59,541,294	39,724,050
1996	59,754,504	39,889,852
1997	59,968,066	40,057,389
1998	60,190,684	40,223,509
1999	60,501,986	40,386,875
2000	60,918,661	40,567,864
2001	61,364,377	40,850,412
2002	61,812,142	41,431,558
2003	62,249,855	42,187,645
2004	62,707,588	42,921,895
2005	63,180,854	43,653,155
2006	63,622,342	44,397,319
2007	64,016,890	45,226,803
2008	64,375,116	45,954,106
2009	64,706,436	46,362,946
2010	65,026,211	46,576,897
2011	65,340,830	46,742,697
2012	65,657,659	46,773,055
2013	65,997,932	46,604,197
2014	66,312,067	46,460,733
2015	66,548,272	46,422,303
2016	66,724,104	46,458,139
2017	66,918,020	46,571,232
2018	67,158,348	46,782,011
2019	67,382,061	47,118,501
2020	67,601,110	47,359,424
2021	67,842,811	47,443,821
2022	68,065,015	47,786,102
2023	68,287,487	48,347,910
2024	68,516,699	48,807,137

Fertility rates in France and Spain

Fertility rate

France

Spain

Table

Year	Fertility rate
	France	Spain
1960	2.85	2.86
1961	2.87	2.77
1962	2.89	2.8
1963	2.89	2.88
1964	2.87	3.01
1965	2.84	2.94
1966	2.8	2.91
1967	2.75	2.94
1968	2.69	2.87
1969	2.62	2.86
1970	2.55	2.84
1971	2.47	2.9
1972	2.38	2.87
1973	2.28	2.84
1974	2.18	2.88
1975	2.09	2.77
1976	2.01	2.77
1977	1.94	2.65
1978	1.89	2.54
1979	1.87	2.37
1980	1.85	2.22
1981	1.85	2.04
1982	1.86	1.94
1983	1.86	1.8
1984	1.86	1.73
1985	1.86	1.64
1986	1.85	1.56
1987	1.83	1.49
1988	1.81	1.45
1989	1.79	1.4
1990	1.77	1.36
1991	1.75	1.33
1992	1.74	1.31
1993	1.73	1.26
1994	1.73	1.19
1995	1.74	1.16
1996	1.75	1.14
1997	1.77	1.15
1998	1.78	1.13
1999	1.81	1.17
2000	1.89	1.22
2001	1.9	1.23
2002	1.88	1.25
2003	1.89	1.3
2004	1.92	1.31
2005	1.94	1.33
2006	2	1.36
2007	1.98	1.38
2008	2.01	1.45
2009	2	1.38
2010	2.03	1.37
2011	2.01	1.34
2012	2.01	1.32
2013	1.99	1.27
2014	2	1.32
2015	1.96	1.33
2016	1.92	1.33
2017	1.89	1.31
2018	1.87	1.26
2019	1.86	1.23
2020	1.83	1.18
2021	1.84	1.18
2022	1.79	1.16
2023	1.66	1.12

France and Spain demographics compared

Median age

France

Spain

Table

Year	Median age, years
	France	Spain
1960	32.8	29.4
1961	32.8	29.6
1962	32.9	29.7
1963	32.8	29.9
1964	32.8	30.1
1965	32.7	30.2
1966	32.7	30.3
1967	32.7	30.4
1968	32.6	30.4
1969	32.5	30.2
1970	32.4	30.1
1971	32.2	30.1
1972	32	30
1973	31.8	30
1974	31.7	30
1975	31.6	30
1976	31.7	30.1
1977	31.9	30.2
1978	32.1	30.4
1979	32.3	30.6
1980	32.4	30.7
1981	32.6	30.9
1982	32.8	31.1
1983	33	31.4
1984	33.3	31.6
1985	33.5	31.9
1986	33.7	32.2
1987	34	32.5
1988	34.2	32.9
1989	34.5	33.2
1990	34.7	33.6
1991	35	33.9
1992	35.3	34.2
1993	35.6	34.6
1994	35.9	34.9
1995	36.2	35.3
1996	36.5	35.7
1997	36.8	36.2
1998	37.1	36.6
1999	37.4	37
2000	37.7	37.4
2001	37.9	37.8
2002	38.2	38.1
2003	38.4	38.3
2004	38.6	38.5
2005	38.9	38.8
2006	39.1	39
2007	39.4	39.2
2008	39.6	39.4
2009	39.8	39.8
2010	40	40.2
2011	40.3	40.6
2012	40.5	41.1
2013	40.8	41.7
2014	41	42.2
2015	41.2	42.7
2016	41.4	43.1
2017	41.6	43.5
2018	41.9	43.8
2019	42.1	44.1
2020	42.3	44.5
2021	42.4	44.9
2022	42.6	45.4
2023	42.8	45.9
2024	43	46.4

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