France: real GDP evolution 2000-2022
The evolution of France’s GDP
This graph shows that the real GDP in France reached its highest growth in 2021 with 6.4 percent and its lowest in 2020 with -7.5 percent. Apart from these two years and 2009, France’s GDP growth fluctuated between 0.3 and 3.9 percent. The GDP, which is an economic construct that measures a country’s production, is an important indicator of the economic strength of this country.
Public debt in France
Since 2007, the public debt of France continuously rose reaching 112 percent of the GDP in 2022. France appears to be one of the industrialized countries that borrowed the most abroad and has a public debt higher than the Euro Zone average. In absolute numbers, the country's debt amounted to approximately three trillion US dollars in 2021.