Quality of life comparison
If you lived in France instead of Netherlands, you would:
Economy
make 22.5% less money
Netherlands has a GDP per capita of $54,200 as of 2020, while in France, the GDP per capita is $42,000 as of 2020.
be 2.4 times more likely to be unemployed
In Netherlands, 3.4% of adults are unemployed as of 2019. In France, that number is 8.1% as of 2019.
Life
be 60.0% more likely to die during childbirth
In Netherlands, approximately 5.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2017. In France, 8.0 women do as of 2017.
Geography
see 10.8 times more coastline
Netherlands has a total of 451 km of coastline. In France, that number is 4,853 km.
The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.
France: At a glance
How big is France compared to Netherlands? See an in-depth size comparison.