France Energy - 2022

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Electricity access

electrification - total population: 100% (2020)

Electricity

installed generating capacity: 138.611 million kW (2020 est.)

consumption: 472.699 billion kWh (2020 est.)

exports: 64.425 billion kWh (2020 est.)

imports: 19.613 billion kWh (2020 est.)

transmission/distribution losses: 36.203 billion kWh (2020 est.)

Electricity generation sources

fossil fuels: 8% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

nuclear: 68.4% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

solar: 2.5% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

wind: 7.3% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

hydroelectricity: 11.7% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

tide and wave: 0.2% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

geothermal: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

biomass and waste: 2% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

Coal

production: 2.312 million metric tons (2020 est.)

consumption: 10.712 million metric tons (2020 est.)

exports: 35,000 metric tons (2020 est.)

imports: 7.891 million metric tons (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 0 metric tons (2019 est.)

Petroleum

total petroleum production: 81,500 bbl/day (2021 est.)

refined petroleum consumption: 1,688,500 bbl/day (2019 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate exports: 0 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate imports: 1,064,700 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil estimated reserves: 61.7 million barrels (2021 est.)

Refined petroleum products - production

1.311 million bbl/day (2017 est.)

Refined petroleum products - exports

440,600 bbl/day (2017 est.)

Refined petroleum products - imports

886,800 bbl/day (2017 est.)

Natural gas

production: 16.226 million cubic meters (2019 est.)

consumption: 38.192 billion cubic meters (2020 est.)

exports: 9.104 billion cubic meters (2020 est.)

imports: 46.11 billion cubic meters (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 7.787 billion cubic meters (2021 est.)

Carbon dioxide emissions

338.425 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from coal and metallurgical coke: 26.971 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from petroleum and other liquids: 225.865 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from consumed natural gas: 85.589 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

Energy consumption per capita

151.053 million Btu/person (2019 est.)

NOTE: The information regarding France on this page is re-published from the 2022 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of France 2022 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about France 2022 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.