Population: 65 million (+0.47% vs 2019) GDP per Capita: $38,625 (-4.3% vs 2019) Debt to GDP: 115% (+17% vs 2019) Power Per Capita: 6,689 kWh World-leading nuclear giant France’s energy sector is notable for its huge nuclear sector, which generated as much as China’s in 2020, and almost half as much as the USA’s. That made nuclear 66% of French power generation in 2020, the highest share in any country – the runners-up being a variety of smaller European countries at 40% to 50%. As elsewhere, France adopted nuclear ‘en masse’ after the 1973 oil crisis, resulting in a fleet most of which is forty years old, just as renewable energy comes along as an alternative. Since the older nuclear…