FranceandSouth Africa

10 August 843 · 31 May 1910

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

France

10 August 843 — The Treaty of Verdun gives Charles the Bald West Francia

Dossier →Chronicle →

South Africa

31 May 1910 — Four colonies join to create the Union of South Africa

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
42
Domains
9
Crossed events
1
Data through
2026-08-22

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Economy

FRAZAF
  • GDP
    $3.37 T2025$427 B2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP per capita
    $48,9862025$6,5982025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP growth
    0.8%20251.1%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Inflation
    0.9%20253.2%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Trade openness
    67.2%202560.9%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Society

FRAZAF
  • Population
    69 m202565 m2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Life expectancy
    83.0 yrs202466.3 yrs2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Urban population
    78.8%202563.8%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Fertility rate
    1.620242.22024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Governance

FRAZAF

Health

FRAZAF
  • Health spending
    11.5%20248.9%2023
    Observed 2024 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Physicians
    3.2820220.792022
    Observed 2022 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Under-5 mortality
    4.3202435.12024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Measles immunisation
    95.0%202476.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Safe drinking water
    99.7%202468.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Education

FRAZAF
  • Education spending
    5.3%20226.0%2024
    Observed 2022 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Primary enrolment
    103.4%2024101.8%2023
    Observed 2024 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Secondary enrolment
    103.8%2024104.1%2023
    Observed 2024 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Tertiary enrolment
    71.5%202423.5%2023
    Observed 2024 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Adult literacy
    —91.2%2024
    Observed — / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Technology

FRAZAF
  • R&D spending
    2.2%20230.6%2022
    Observed 2023 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Researchers (per million)
    5,36920234442022
    Observed 2023 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Internet users
    88.7%202478.4%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mobile subscriptions
    11720231792024
    Observed 2023 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • High-tech exports
    23.1%20245.7%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Geography

FRAZAF
  • Land area
    538,950 km²20231,213,090 km²2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest area
    32.5%202314.0%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Agricultural land
    52.5%202379.4%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • CO₂ per capita (t)
    4.020246.92024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Renewable energy
    16.2%20219.7%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded

Resources

FRAZAF
  • Resource rents
    0.0%20217.3%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Oil rents
    0.0%20210.4%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mineral rents
    0.0%20213.8%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest rents
    0.0%20210.6%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Electricity access
    100.0%202490.2%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Iron ore
    —66 Mt2025
    Observed — / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Gold (mined)
    —90 t2025
    Observed — / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Phosphate rock
    —2.2 Mt2025
    Observed — / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Military

FRAZAF
  • Military burden
    2.1%20240.7%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Defense spending
    $65 B2024$2.8 B2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Armed forces
    304,000202089,0002020
    Observed 2020 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded

Entangled histories

One event in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

  1. 1806

    Britain seizes the Cape

    British forces occupied the Cape Colony during the Napoleonic Wars, beginning lasting British rule confirmed by the Congress of Vienna in 1815.

    Colonisation · from the South Africa chronicle · British rule, the Mfecane, the Zulu kingdom and the Boer republics · REFS 2 — South Africa (country, history and government), History of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa