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France hosts "the world's biggest annual sporting event", the annual cycling race Tour de France. [37] Other popular sports played in France include: football, judo, tennis, [38] rugby union [39] and pétanque. France has hosted events such as the 1938 and 1998 FIFA World Cups, [40] the 2007 Rugby World Cup, [41] and the 2023 Rugby World Cup. [42]
Life expectancy in the regions of metropolitan France in 2023 for male [31] Life expectancy in the regions of metropolitan France in 2023 for female [31] Life expectancy in Metropolitan France from 1818 to 1950. Source: Our World In Data. Death rate 9.6 deaths/1,000 population (2021 est.)
In 1914, the territory of France was different from today's France in two important ways: most of Alsace and the northeastern part of Lorraine had been annexed by Germany in 1870 (following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871), and the North African country of Algeria had been established as an integral part of France in 1848.
The official statistics of France, available on the INSEE website, do not include total life expectancy for the population as a whole. For a more correct comparison of regions with various differences in life expectancy for men and women, a column with the arithmetic mean of these indicators was added to the tables. By default tables are sorted ...
France, [IX] officially the French Republic, [X] is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world.
Rioting rages across France for fourth night ahead of Nahel’s funeral. 09:50, Tara Cobham. Rioting raged across France for a fourth night as family and friends prepare to bury the 17-year-old ...
Life expectancy at birth in France. Life expectancy in France at birth was 81 years in 2008. [1] [2] A new measure of expected human capital calculated for 195 countries from 1990 to 2016 and defined for each birth cohort as the expected years lived from age 20 to 64 years and adjusted for educational attainment, learning or education quality, and functional health status was published by the ...
Following industrialization and the French Revolution altered the social structure of France and the bourgeoisie became the new ruling class. The feudal nobility was on the decline with agricultural and land yields decreasing, and arranged marriages between noble and bourgeois family became increasingly common, fusing the two social classes together during the 19th century.