Hesse – DE7

EU regions: Germany > Hesse

Indicator	Period	Value
Life long learning
life long learning participation	2024	10.2
Part time jobs and flexible employment
percentage of part time workers	2024	30.84
percentage of part time workers, men	2024	13.12
percentage of part time workers, women	2024	50.99
Gender differences
gender gap in employment rate	2024	89.78
gender gap in unemployment rate	2024	82.86
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2024	8.7
NEET	2024	8.7
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2023	131
Employment
employment rate	2024	76.1

More on wikipedia wikidata Q1199 on OpenStreetMap Hesse slovensky: DE7

Subregions: Darmstadt Government Region, Giessen Government Region, Kassel Government Region

Unemployment

Indicator	Period	Value
Unemployment
unemployment rate	2024	3.3
youth unemployment rate	2024	6.5
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment	2024	0.8
share of long term unemployed	2024	26.3

Demographics

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2024	6 267 546
population density	2023	297.2
old-age dependency ratio	2024	33.2

Employment by sectors, Hesse

NACE r2		%	NACE r2		%
A	19.5	1%	B-E	563.5	17%
F	201.1	6%	G-I	739.7	23%
J	135.7	4%	K	168.4	5%
L	33.8	1%	M_N	349.3	11%
O-Q	904.7	28%	R-U	154.9	5%
TOTAL	3270.5	100%

Data for the period year 2024. Source of the data is Eurostat, table [lfst_r_lfe2en2].

From Wikipedia: Hesse (, also US: , Hessian dialect: [ˈhɛzə]) or Hessia (UK: , US: ; German: Hessen [ˈhɛsn̩] (listen)), officially the State of Hesse (German: Land Hessen), is a federal state (Land) of the Federal Republic of Germany, with just over six million inhabitants. Its state capital is Wiesbaden and the largest city is Frankfurt am Main.

As a cultural region, Hesse also includes the area known as Rhenish Hesse (Rheinhessen) in the neighbouring state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Name

The German name Hessen, like the name of other German regions (Schwaben „Swabia“, Franken „Franconia“, Bayern „Bavaria“, Sachsen „Saxony") is derived from the dative plural form of the name of the inhabitants or eponymous tribe, the Hessians (Hessen, singular Hesse), short for the older compound name Hessenland ("land of the Hessians"). The Old High German form of the name is recorded as Hessun (dative plural of Hessi), in Middle Latin as Hassia, Hessia, Hassonia. The name of the Hessians ultimately continues the tribal name of the Chatti.

The ancient name Chatti by the 7^th century is recorded as Chassi, and from the 8^th century as Hassi or Hessi.

An inhabitant of Hesse is called a "Hessian" (German: Hesse (masculine) or Hessin (feminine), plural Hessen).

The American English term Hessian for 18^th-century British auxiliary troops originates with Landgrave Frederick II of Hesse-Cassel hiring out regular army units to the government of Great Britain to fight in the American Revolutionary War.

The English form Hesse is in common use by the 18^th century, first in the hyphenated names Hesse-Cassel and Hesse-Darmstadt, but the latinate form Hessia remains in common English usage well into the 19^th century.

The German term Hessen is used by the European Commission even in English-language contexts because their policy is to leave regional names untranslated (paragraphs 1.31 and 1.35).

The synthetic element hassium, number 108 on the periodic table, was named after the state of Hesse in 1997, following a proposal of 1992.

History

The territory of Hesse was delineated only in 1945, as Greater Hesse, under American occupation. It corresponds only loosely to the medieval Landgraviate of Hesse.

Other: Germany, Hamburg, Berlin, Baden-Württemberg, Thuringia, Hesse, Schleswig-Holstein, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony-Anhalt, Bremen, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saarland, Brandenburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony, Lower Saxony

Neighbours: Lower Saxony, Baden-Württemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Thuringia, Bavaria, Rhineland-Palatinate

Subregions: Darmstadt Government Region, Giessen Government Region, Kassel Government Region

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - Hesse – DE7, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​PDE7, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164

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