Carinthia - AT21

EU regions: Austria > Südösterreich > Carinthia

indicator	period	value
long term unemployment	2021	1.6
share of long term unemployed	2021	28.9
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2020	108
unemployment rate	2021	5.7
employment rate	2021	70.7
number of inhabitants	2021	562 089
population density	2019	59.9
percentage of part time workers, men	2021	9.24
percentage of part time workers, women	2021	50.65
life long learning participation	2021	12.8
youth unemployment rate	2016	12.2
NEET	2021	5.9
old-age dependency ratio	2021	34.7
gender gap in employment rate	2021	87.78
gender gap in unemployment rate	2021	88.14

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Composition of population according to age group, education and economic activity, Carinthia

age group	low education	middle education	high education

note: in thousands, according to labour force sample survey. P – total population, E – employed, U – unemployed, I – number of ecnomically inactive

From wikipedia:

Carinthia (German: Kärnten, German pronunciation: [ˈkɛɐ̯ntn̩] (listen); Slovene: Koroška, pronunciation ; Italian: Carinzia) is the southernmost Austrian state or Land. Situated within the Eastern Alps, it is noted for its mountains and lakes. The main language is German. Its regional dialects belong to the Southern Bavarian group. Carinthian Slovene dialects, which predominated in the southeastern part of the region up to the first half of the 20th century, are now spoken by a small minority.

Carinthia's main industries are tourism, electronics, engineering, forestry, and agriculture. The multinational corporations Philips, Infineon and Siemens have large operations there.

Name

The etymology of the name „Carinthia“, similar to Carnia or Carniola, has not been conclusively established. The Ravenna Cosmography (about AD 700) referred to a Slavic „Carantani" tribe as the eastern neighbours of the Bavarians. In his History of the Lombards, the 8th century chronicler Paul the Deacon mentions „Slavs in Carnuntum, which is erroneously called Carantanum" (Carnuntum, quod corrupte vocitant Carantanum) for the year 663.

A possible etymology of the name „Carantani" is that it may have been formed from a toponymic base carant- which ultimately derives from pre-Indo-European root *karra meaning „rock" (cf.

other: Südösterreich, Carinthia, Styria

neighbours: Western Slovenia, Tyrol, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Styria, Veneto, Salzburg, Eastern Slovenia

subregions: Klagenfurt, Oberkärnten, Eberndorf

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: EU regions - Carinthia - AT21, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/eu-regions/AT21

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