14th blog for the economy of France

I was trying to find some more information on the economy of France and I tried to find some statistics and numbers to share with the rest of my classmates. I wanted to find a site that talked about the different aspects of France's economy. I came across an informative site from diplomatie.gouv.fr that had alot of different facts!

There are so many factors that make up the economy for France for example telecommunications, food industries,and transport.Of course the tourism and the finer things in life, aka the expensive goods, are also major helpers for the economy. Some of the expensive goods may include fashion items, leather goods, and wines. This article also talks about the agriculture as well. Here are some numbers that describes it! The estimate of people that work for the agriculure is 1,100,000 and some of their main produces are: Cereals, wine, milk, sugarbeet, and oilseeds. Livestock includes cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats.

What also makes up France's economy is the construction and civil engineering which contains 1,597,000 workers. 160,000 work for the fashion industry in some way. France is also the fourth largest exporter of cars. Which leads to transportation which is very important to France. Different types of transportation would include the road network, rail network, aviation, and merchant fleet. Also according to this site, in 2006, there was an estimate of 76 million tourists that had come to visit France, which could make it easy to say that France is the most visited country.

These were just from little facts that all come together to help in the economy of France!