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France

France Culture Stats

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STAT AMOUNT DATE RANK HISTORY
Arts > Fine art exports 959.77 million 2010 4th out of 5
Arts > Fine art exports per capita 14.76 2010 4th out of 5
Arts > Fine art imports 562.11 million 2010 5th out of 5
Arts > Fine art imports per capita 8.64 2010 5th out of 5
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > All drinks 13.66 2005 15th out of 187
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Beer 2.31 2005 63th out of 187
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Homemade and illegal drinks 0.36 2005 157th out of 187
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Legal sources 13.3 2005 5th out of 187
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Other alcoholic drinks 0.17 2005 55th out of 187
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Spirits 2.62 2005 43th out of 187
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Wine 8.14 2005 2nd out of 187
Food and drink > Alcohol > Legal drinking age 18 2014 4th out of 25
Food and drink > Alcohol > Litres of pure alcohol drunk per year 11.43 2003 14th out of 178
Food and drink > Alcohol > Standard drink size 12 g 2008 6th out of 17
Food and drink > Beer consumed per capita 2.31 l 2014 3rd out of 9
Food and drink > Cheese consumption per capita per year 26.3 kg 2011 1st out of 20
Food and drink > Fast food > McDonalds > First outlet date June 30, 1972 2012
Food and drink > Fast food > McDonalds > First outlet location Creteil 2012
Food and drink > Fast food > McDonalds > First outlet notes First outlet in Creteil in 1972 even though McDonald's officially recognizes the first outlet in Strasbourg in 1979. See McDonald's France . 2012
Food and drink > Fast food outlets > KFC > Notes Opened in 1991, but all seven stores were closed by 1992. Returned in 2001, with 156 stores by 2013. 2014
Food and drink > Fast food outlets > KFC > Owner or major operator KFC France 2014
Food and drink > Fast food outlets > KFC > Year entered 2,001 2014 9th out of 22
Food and drink > Honey consumption 30,000 metric tons 2005 10th out of 29
Food and drink > Horse meat production 7,500 tonnes 2009 14th out of 15
Food and drink > Litres of wine drunk per litre of beer 3.52 2014 3rd out of 9
Food and drink > Milk consumption per capita 260.48 kg 2007 14th out of 99
Food and drink > Wine consumed per capita 8.14 l 2014 1st out of 9
Gambling > Casino revenue 3,965 2009 2nd out of 9
Gambling > Casino revenue per thousand people 0.0613 2009 4th out of 9
Gambling > Casinos 1 2014 8th out of 8
Happy Planet Index 46.5 2012 50th out of 50
Pets > Animal cropping (legal status) Banned, except tail-docking 2001
Sentiments towards other countries > China > Negative view of China 68% 2014 1st out of 25
Sentiments towards other countries > China > Net sentiment towards China -43% 2014 21st out of 25
Sentiments towards other countries > China > Neutral view of China 7% 2014 24th out of 25
Sentiments towards other countries > China > Positive view of China 25% 2014 20th out of 25
Sexuality > Homosexuality > Anti-discrimination laws Some 2014
Sexuality > Homosexuality > LGBT individual may petition to adopt a child Yes 2014
Sexuality > Homosexuality > Legality of homosexual acts Legal since 1791 UN decl. sign. 2014
Sexuality > Homosexuality > Recognition of gay relationships Yes (since 1999) 2014
Sexuality > Homosexuality > Same-sex adoption Yes (since 2013) 2014
Sexuality > Homosexuality > Same-sex couple may jointly petition to adopt a child Yes 2014
Sexuality > Homosexuality > Same-sex couples are allowed to foster or stepchild foster Yes 2014
Sexuality > Homosexuality > Same-sex marriage Yes (since 2013) 2014
Sexuality > Homosexuality > Same-sex partner may petition to adopt partner's child Yes 2014
Sexuality > Sexually experienced 15-year-old boys 25.1% 2012 10th out of 24
Sexuality > Sexually experienced 15-year-old girls 17.7% 2012 14th out of 24
Smoking > Cigarettes per adult per year 854 2014 59th out of 184
Smoking > Tobacco vending machine legal status Banned 2008
Tobacco > Purchase age 18 2014 76th out of 88
Well being > Experienced well-being 6.8 2012 10th out of 50
World Heritage Sites 34 2014 4th out of 140

SOURCES: http://comtrade.un.org/; http://comtrade.un.org/. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; Global status report on alcohol and health, World Health Organisation, 2011. p. 273 ff.; Global status report on alcohol and health, World Health Organisation, 2011. p. 273 ff.; Global status report on alcohol and health, World Health Organisation, 2011. p. 273 ff. ; Global status report on alcohol and health, World Health Organisation. p. 273 ff. ; http://www.icap.org/Table/MinimumAgeLimitsWorldwide; World Health Organization. Source tables; Wikipedia: Standard drink (Standard drinks as defined by various countries) (ICAP Report 5 - "What is a 'standard drink'". URL: [1] . Accessed on June 19, 2008.); Wikipedia: Wine (Wine vs. beer consumption) (http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/global_alcohol_report/msbgsruprofiles.pdf); Wikipedia: Cheese (Total cheese consumption per capita per year) ("Total and Retail Cheese Consumption – Kilograms per Capita" . Canadian Dairy Information Centre . Retrieved 2013-05-20 ., , Cidilait, ''Le fromage'', Cheese Consumption Continues to Rise); Wikipedia: List of countries with McDonald's restaurants (Countries and territories with a McDonald's outlet); Wikipedia: List of countries with KFC franchises (Africa); Wikipedia: List of countries with KFC franchises (Asia); Wikipedia: Beekeeping (World honey production and consumption); http://www.farminguk.com/news/Argentina-Horse-Meat-world-production-figures._10249.html; Wikipedia: Wine (Wine vs. beer consumption); Wikipedia: List of countries by milk consumption per capita ("Countries by milk consumption per capita" . "Countries by consumptions per capita" .); Casino Revenues 2014, PricewaterCoopers; Casino Revenues 2014, PricewaterCoopers. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; Wikipedia: Casino (By region) ; http://www.happyplanetindex.org/data/; Wikipedia: Cropping (animal) (Status by country); Wikipedia: Sinophobia (Region-based Sinophobia); http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/country-rating-poll.pdf, June 2014. p. 37.; Wikipedia: LGBT rights by country or territory (Australasia); Wikipedia: LGBT adoption (European laws on adoption by same-sex couples); Wikipedia: LGBT rights by country or territory (Central Asia); Wikipedia: LGBT rights in Asia (Central Asia); Wikipedia: LGBT rights by country or territory (Central Europe); Wikipedia: Virginity (Prevalence of sexually experienced 15-year-olds based on self-reports) (Godeau, Emmanuelle; Nic Gabhainn, Saoirse; Vignes, Ce´line; Ross, Jim; Boyce, Will; Todd, Joanna. "Contraceptive Use by 15-Year-Old Students at Their Last Sexual Intercourse Results From 24 Countries" . Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 162 (1) . Retrieved 14 January 2012 ., See here and pages 47-49 for views on what constitutes virginity loss and therefore sexual intercourse or other sexual activity; source discusses how gay and lesbian individuals define virginity loss, and how the majority of researchers and heterosexuals define virginity loss/"technical virginity" by whether or not a person has engaged in penile-vaginal sex. Laura M. Carpenter (2005). Virginity Lost: An Intimate Portrait of First Sexual Experiences . NYU Press . pp. 295 pages. ISBN 0-8147-1652-0 . Retrieved October 9, 2011 . A. Leigh, Jennifer (June 27, 2009). "Male Virginity Myths" . Psychology Today . Retrieved October 9, 2011 ., Bozon, Michael. 'At what age do women and men have their first sexual intercourse? World comparisons and recent trends'. Population and Societies 391 (2003) 1–4.); http://www.nuigalway.ie/hbsc/documents/godeau_2008_contraceptive_use_apam_1621_6673.pdf, Emmanuelle Godeau, Saoirse Nic Gabhainn, Celine Vignes, Jim Ross, Will Boyce, Joanna Todd, ARCH PEDIATR ADOLESC MED/VOL 162 (NO. 1), JAN 2008. p 2.; Wikipedia: List of countries by cigarette consumption per capita (List); Wikipedia: Cigarette machine (Tobacco vending machine prevalence by country) ("Japanese smokers to face age test" . BBC . 2008-12-06 . Retrieved 2008-03-07 .); Wikipedia: Smoking age; Wikipedia: Table of World Heritage Sites by country (Table of World Heritage Sites)

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France Culture Profiles (Subcategories)

Arts 4 Sentiments towards other countries 4
Food and drink 23 Sexuality 11
Gambling 3

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