Economic analysis of France

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Number of inhabitants: 64,350,759 people (on 1st January 2009), that is to say around 1 % of the global population. The population of France is growing. The demographic growth rate in France is of 0.574 % per year. The number of births is quite high in France. Indeed, there were 801,000 live births in France in 2008, an unequalled number since 1981. This fact is still more amazing when we discover that women aged from 20 to 40 years old who have given birth to 94 % of the babies of 2008, are decreasing. Indeed, the generations born during the baby-boom of post-war years are progressively being replaced by less abundant generations. This means that women continue to have on an average more children than during the 1990's. The French birthrate is of 2.02 children per woman. This rate is higher than the one measured in many other European countries. It is, for instance, only of 1.3 in Germany, 1.4 in Italy or 1.5 in Spain. It is even less (1.3) in Poland and Slovakia, and is situated between 1.3 and 1.35 in Slovenia, Lithuania, Romania, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia and Portugal. This phenomenon may be explained by a favorable political and social environment.

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[...] Cinema : there are 4,800 movie theatres in France. Each French went on average 3,03 times to the cinema. This frequentation rate places France in first position in the European Union, before the United Kingdom and Spain The rate is higher in the USA or in Australia It is only of 1,3 in Japan. Radio : more than of the French households have a radio. Average duration of listening : 3 hours per day. Print : with 155 daily newspapers (national or regional) diffused for 1,000 inhabitants aged more than 14, France arrives in 58th position in the world and in 20th position in Europe. [...]

[...] Communication systems 8 H. Working conditions Employer-employee relations Employee participation Salaries and benefits 9 I. Principal industries What proportion of the GDP does each industry contribute? Ratio of private to publicly owned industries 10 J. Foreign investment Opportunities ? Which industries? 10 K. International trade Major exports Major imports Balance-of-payments situation 12 L. Trade restrictions 12 M. Labor force Size Unemployment rates 12 N. Inflation rates 12 III. [...]

[...] There are no trade restrictions for the product I wish to import in France. A. Current technology available (computers, machinery, tools, etc.) France offered all types of technologies available : computers, laptops computers, cell phones, high-speed Internet, wireless, TV's, cable, satellite, optic fiber machineries, tools for private and professional use. P. Percentage of GNP invested in research and development Today, research and development represents only of the GNP. Q. Technological skills of the labor force and general population French people are trained to the new technologies from primary to higher education and/or during their professional life through training courses. [...]

[...] - High income people. They have a monthly level of life superior to 2,400 i.e. an income of the household superior to 3,450 for a couple without children. In this category, the incomes from the non-salaried activity are more important than previously, representing about of the available income. There is a redistribution to the benefit of the poorest and of the more modest ; indeed the taxes they pay represent one quarter of their income, for about allowances received. F. [...]

[...] in average one child more that the French women. But the proportion of foreign women in age of having children is relatively weak ; the reproduction rate de fécondité”) is thus hardly affected The more the immigration is ancient, the more the behavior of the foreign women tends to be closed to the one of the French women. As them, foreign women become mothers later than before. The calendar of births of the Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian women gets closer to the one of the French women. [...]