France
French Republic
- Region
- Europe · Western Europe
- Capital
- Paris
- Population
- 68,720,337 (2025)
- Government
- semi-presidential republic
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Official languages
- French
- Spoken languages
- French (official) 100%, declining regional dialects and languages (Provençal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Flemish, Occitan, Picard)
- Written scripts
- Latin
- Area
- 551,695 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- EU, G7, G20, IMF, NATO, OECD, WCO, WTO
- Borders
- Andorra , Belgium , Germany , Italy , Luxembourg , Monaco , Spain , Switzerland
Political stability
62 / 100
Economic stability
72 / 100
Population stability
59 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- aircraft, cars, packaged medicine, gas turbines, vehicle parts/accessories (2023)
- Key imports
- cars, natural gas, crude petroleum, refined petroleum, garments (2023)
- Natural resources
- <em>metropolitan France:</em> coal, iron ore, bauxite, zinc, uranium, antimony, arsenic, potash, feldspar, fluorspar, gypsum, timber
- Luxury goods
- wine and champagne, spirits (cognac), fashion and leather goods, perfume and cosmetics
- Primary route
- Le Havre and Marseille-Fos on Asia–Europe lanes
- Secondary route
- Transatlantic and Mediterranean short-sea services
The xin.bz view
- France transmits drought through several markets at once: maize potentially below 7M t, sugar beet yields 20%+ down, potatoes ~23% below 2025 — while August river temperatures constrained nuclear cooling, making autumn’s cool-down and recharge a double economic win.
xin.bz coverage
El Niño Is Arriving as Western Europe Rebuilds Its Water Reserves — While Energy and Arctic Trade Reprice the Atlantic Economy
The Rhine recovering from record lows, England 71% in drought, French crops down hard, Qatar's LNG collapse pushing Europe to U.S. gas, and Iceland and Greenland turning the Atlantic into Western Europe's organizing system.
Commodity Deep Dive ·
Wheat Is the Grain That Feeds a Fifth of Humanity's Calories — and a Quarter of Its Exports Leave Through One 700-Metre Channel
Wheat deep dive — 822.4 Mt of world production against 211.7 Mt of trade, China at 140.1 Mt, Russia exporting 43.0 Mt through the Turkish Straits, and CBOT nearby wheat at $7.26 a bushel.
Future Insight ·
NAFTA, We Hafta: Thirty-Three Years of North American Trade Rhetoric Meet the Record
Future Insights — one story from the 1930 tariff act to the September 29, 2026 U.S. exclusion of Canadian whisky, whey and motorcycles: the slogans each generation used to sell or fight North American trade, the precedents from 1930, 1965, 1971 and 2018, and what the trade data recorded at every step.
Future Insight ·
Redundancy, Training and Old Physics: What Carries Logistics Through a Satellite Outage
Future Insights — the engineering answer to contested orbits: diversity of physics rather than more satellites. Holdover clocks measured in days, eLoran rebuilt in Britain and Korea, magnetic navigation flown for four hours without GPS, and the training that turns equipment into capability.
Future Insight ·
Two Programs, One Ridge: The Supply Chain That Decides the Moon Race, 2024–2036
Future Insights — the second Moon race as a logistics contest: $93 billion spent, more than 10 tanker flights per landing, and two programs aimed at the same sunlit ridge above a crater that has been dark for billions of years.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.