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10 93.2% (2002) 2.515 trillion (2007) 2% Daiy farming, coal mining, steel mining, timber prodution/lumbering, commercial fishing 20.7% Automobile manufacturing, airplane manufaturing, constrution laborer, offshoreoil driller, rail layer (for railroads) 77.3% Computer technician, tour guild, Industrial engineer, biotach personal, biochemist coal, iron ore, zinc, uranium, timber, fish TotalFinaElf SA Oil for gas and oil, sporting equipment, Clothing especially leather goods, Cellular tellephones, petrolium, wine, Books, computers, television sets, automobilies .982, The education system in France focuses on learning what you need not nessesarily passing a trimester. In fact, in public schools they do not grade a student's everyday preformance. The system waits to the end of the trimester, the school year is split into 3 trimesters, then there is a meeting between the students, their parents, the teachers and previous students. This meeting decides whether the student has learn all that it is possible to learn from this trimester or if they should take the classes again. Because of that aspect the idea of repeating a grade is not frowned upon in France in fact it is expected. 99% of people over 15 -** male 77.35 years, female 84 years, total 80.59 years 3.41 deaths per 1000 live births 2% 12.91 births/1000 population 15th, .795, women literacy rate 99%, less then 5% of executive possitions are held by women, 3% of women have higher education levels then men, 64.1 percent of women work outside of the home, 2% higher that the European average, most women retire be 54, 12% difference in pay between men and women
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Types of industry found in the country: airplane production, textile industry, automoblie production, natural gas drilling, dairy farming

Site factors for industry: European Union open trading policy, coastline for tourism, use of Euro/ high international exchange rate, iron ore found in eastern France, oil and other natural gasses found outside of France's coast line.

Situational factors for industry: coastline for imports, 8500 km of internal waterways, 29085 km of railroads, 956303 km of highways, 292 airports

Types of energy used by the country: France is a more developed country and as such it uses many types of energy. The most common is the use of electricity. France produces 543.6 billion K. Wh of electricity every year. It only uses 451.5 billion k. Whs. The extra energy produced is then sold to other countries. France also uses natural gas for energy. Like many countries France needs to import most of its natural gas. France produces 73,180 bbl per day. However it uses 1.999 million per day. This is causing a problem because the international issues in the Middle East are hurting France's economy very much. France only uses elecricity and natural gas for its main sources of energy. However it uses different techniques to harness that electricity. France produces most of its electricity through nuclear power. In fact 78% of its energy is produced this way. Another 10.9 percent is produced from hydroelectricity. This is a huge difference but the difference between hydroelectricity and thermal energy is very small. In fact 10.3 percent of France's electricity is produced by thermal energy. The last .8 percent comes from Geothermal, solar and wind power. These green energys are on the rise in France but are not yet a majority.
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In France the energy usage is at an all time high but there is still plenty of electricity. However due to political problems in the Middle-East, France, along with most of the world is having trouble with an oil shortage. The price of oil in France rose by 3.5 percent while the rest of Europe suffered only a 2.5 percent increase. The soaring price began to immediately take a toll. The French trade deficit reached an all time high this year and oil prices are being blamed. This rise in oil prices came at an excedingly bad time for the French economy. Since the 1970's the importance of transportation in the French economy has been on the rise. It was still on the rise when the oil prices began to spike. This rising trend of pollution through transportation has lead to several regulations being passed in order to control emissions. Unfortunately these regulations are doing little good. This pollution has in turn caused rising problems in France. There are now respiratory health problems in Paris and other large cities that were never seen before. The reason for this is the smog surrounding the cities. This rise in the transportation sector, originally thought to help the economy, is now causing many more problems. The rising prices are actually hurting the economy more than helping it, the regulations set in place by the government do little to control pollution and the pollution being released by the rising transportation sector is causing major heath problems in the the cities.
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A large pollution problem for France is in its water. The southern portion of France is largely farming. A specialty of this region is the wine prodution. Unfortuatly grape vines are very susceptible to insects. The farmers fight them with pesticides. The runoff from these feilds is causing a water pollution problem. This problem only becomes worse over the years and now there are six rivers in france deamed unfit for human consumption. This problem only worsens as the growing season continues. This is because when the grapes are harvested the water use increases by five times. This usage of water is more than sewage plants can process and the pesticides are released into the environment. France is also concerned with air pollution, most of which comes from the transportation use within the country. Scientists forecast this air pollution only to worsen during the upcoming summer and are predicting the major cities to have further respiratory problems should the trend continue. Luckily France does not have a large ground pollution problem. However the air and water pollution problems are very difficult and seem to have very little chance of ending soon.
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France has been part of the environmental movement since the 1970s. In fact, in 1971 the Ministry for the Protection of Nature and the Environment was founded. This was soon followed by a number of regulations to control and eliminate waste. France passed the Air Quality Act in 1981 followed by the Energy Management Act in 1982. These acts set regulations to the amount of air pollution and energy use throughout the country. From 1998 to 2001 this organization became more active. They wrote the Sustainable Development Act and the Environmental Code in 1999 and adopted it by 2000. Since then the Ministry for the Protection of Nature and the Environment has become part of the Interministerial Committee for Sustainable Development which is a part of the European Union. This organization has not passed any specific of laws and regulation due to the fact that it would effect the entire European Union not just France. So for the pollution trends in France will continue as they are.
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 * Comparisons**

GDI 0.953 HDI 8th GDP per capita $31,100 Primary jobs Fishermen, Rice farmers, Cattle ranchers, Horticulturists, Lumberjacks,
 * __Japan__**

Secondary jobs Shipwrights, Automobile assembly line workers, Silicon chip fabricators, Chemical plant workers, Construction worker

Tertiary Jobs Electronics engineers, Computer programmers, Professional investors, Research Scientists, Actors

Raw materials Lumber, Rice, Oil, Fish, Pork

Consumer goods Robots. Soda. Music players inside other objects, Martial Arts equipment, Books, Plastic toys,Anime, Video games, Fish

Japan and France are both more developed countries in the top ten of the world. Both have a high number of tertiary jobs are a high education system. Also the elderly are respected in both cultures so both countries take care of them.The differences between France and Japan come in when comparing them specifically. Although both countries have many tertiary jobs France focuses on personal service, such as tourism and Japan focuses in high techincal jobs, such as computer engineering. Also the cultures of France and Japan are very different France is majority Christian and Japan fallows many religions. Finally, France and Japan also alter in primary jobs. France has many primary jobs in mining and Japan has few natural resourse to mine so there are not many primary jobs in that sector.

__**Germany**__ HDI Rank 22nd .935 GDP 29,461 Primary Jobs Farming, Salt Mining, Coal Mining, Harvesting,

Secondary Jobs Automobile Manufacturing, Iron Production, Ship Bulding, Alcohol Manufacturing

Tertiary Jobs Teaching, Nursing, Dentistry, Government, Banking

Raw Materials Coal, Iron, Salt, Uranium, Timber

Consumer Goods Automobiles, Computers, Televisions, Alcohol, Clothing, Textiles, Footwear, Missiles, Furniture, Telephones

France and Germany are very close on a map which has made then close culturally and socially but they have very different aspects as well. France and Germany are both members of the European Union and share many traits due to that. They are also in Western European and so share a similar culture and religion. Also they have similar jobs in the secondary sector. They are however very different. France is ranked 10th in the HDI SCale but Germany is 22nd. This difference is due to the large gape in their GDP. Germany is far behind France economically, due in part to the world wars. Another aspect that seperate France and Germany is their different education systems. France's education system focuses on learning the skills nessesary rather than passing. Germany's education system focus's on job train and every year counts for a great deal in there system. Failure is extremely looked down on. Also France and Germany differ in their raw materials most of the mining in France is metal where as Germany does not mine very many metals at all.


 * __China__**

HDI Rank - 81st--.777

GDP- $5,300

Primary Sector Jobs Farming, Fishing, Mining, Forestry

Secondary Sector Jobs Aerospace manufacturing, Automobile manufacturing, Clothing industry Electronics, Steel production

Tertiary Sector Jobs engineer,  Teaching, utility management, government jobs, retail salesmen

Raw Materials coal, iron ore, petroleum, natural gas, mercury, tin, tungsten, antimony, manganese, molybdenum, vanadium, magnetite, aluminum, lead, zinc, uranium, hydropower potential

Comsumer goods footwear, toys, electronics, cars, suitcases, handbags, microwaves, bikes, clothes, mobile phones

France and China are both countries with stuggiling economies but for different reasons. China is still trying to develop but France has too many workers. France and China also both manufacture steel as a main secondary job. They both use nuclear power as a main elecritity supply. They are very different in some aspects.For example, France is tenth in the UN's HDI scale and China is 81st. One of the reasons for this can be found in their environments. Although France has some problems with pollution it is controlling them and it is slowly but surely improving its environment. China has one of the worst environmental problems ever seen on earth and the government is not doing alot to stop it. Also France and China differ greatly in their cultures. France is very modern and a majority of their culture is popular. But Chinas culture is very old fashioned and they have not been very modernized. Also France workers tend to retire by 54 to 60 in China many people will work until they die.

France is a more developed country, one of the top ten, the reasons for this are found in French economy, culture, education and health care, these are the basics which a country is graded on. France is the 10th most developed country according to the United Nations scale. France has earned this rating though a number of things. The most prominate reason France has such a high HDI rate is most likely found in its education. The education in France focuses on learning the skills required not passing each grade. It is even expected of most students to repeat a grade or two. This allows the students to better grasp what it is they are learning not just focus on passing. Another aspect of France that gives it such a high rating is the equal treatment of men and women. France is 15th in the GDI index. This high rating boasts its HDI overall rating. One of the factors that is dragging France down is it poor economy. Although its GDP is 5.515 trillion a large number of young French citizens are unemployed. This is causing a major crisis in France.

Franch is very high on the HDI scale now but in the future I believe it is not looking well. The economy of France is suffering greatly, and with the world wide depression the economic troubles will continue for France. I believe these problems will hurt France enough to bring down its HDI Score. It will most likely drop from the top ten because its position is already precarious. In 50 years I think Franch will only be at number 15 to 20 on the HDI scale. France is still a very stable country in an optimal position. However it's suffering economy will cause it to lose several of HDI points.