Quality of life comparison
If you lived in France instead of Guernsey, you would:
Economy
be 22.4% more likely to be unemployed
In Guernsey, 6.0% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In France, that number is 7.3% as of 2023.
Life
have 12.4% more children
In Guernsey, there are approximately 9.7 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In France, there are 10.9 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.
Geography
see 97.1 times more coastline
Guernsey has a total of 50 km of coastline. In France, that number is 4,853 km.
The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.
France: At a glance
How big is France compared to Guernsey? See an in-depth size comparison.