Thuringia - DEG0

EU regions: Germany > THÜRINGEN > Thuringia

indicator	period	value
long term unemployment	2019	1.6
share of long term unemployed	2019	42
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2020	89
unemployment rate	2021	3.3
employment rate	2021	77.8
number of inhabitants	2021	2 120 237
population density	2019	132.4
percentage of part time workers, men	2021	9.99
percentage of part time workers, women	2021	40.21
life long learning participation	2021	6.3
youth unemployment rate	2019	7.7
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2008	11
NEET	2019	5.7
old-age dependency ratio	2021	44.2
gender gap in employment rate	2021	94.74
gender gap in unemployment rate	2019	82.93

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

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:

Thuringia (German: Thüringen) (German pronunciation: [ˈtyːʁɪŋən] (listen)), officially the Free State of Thuringia (English: ; German: Freistaat Thüringen, pronounced [ˈfʁaɪʃtaːt ˈtyːʁɪŋən]), is a state of Germany.

Thuringia is located in central Germany covering an area of 16,171 square kilometres (6,244 sq mi) and a population of 2.15 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest German state by area and the fifth smallest by population. Erfurt is the state capital and largest city, while other major cities include Jena, Gera, and Weimar. Thuringia is surrounded by the states of Bavaria, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony.

Most of Thuringia is within the watershed of the Saale, a left tributary of the Elbe, and has been known as „the green heart of Germany" (das grüne Herz Deutschlands) from the late 19th century due to the dense forest covering the land. Thuringia is home to the Rennsteig, Germany's most well-known hiking trail, and the winter resort of Oberhof, making it a well-known winter sports destination with half of Germany's 136 Winter Olympic gold medals won through 2014 having been won by Thuringian athletes. Thuringia is also home to prominent German intellectuals and creative artists, including Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Friedrich Schiller, and is location of the University of Jena, the Ilmenau University of Technology, the University of Erfurt, and the Bauhaus University of Weimar.

Thuringia was established in 1920 as a state of the Weimar Republic from a merger of the Ernestine duchies, except for Saxe-Coburg, but can trace its origins to the Frankish Duchy of Thuringia established around 631 AD by King Dagobert I. After World War II, Thuringia came under the Soviet occupation zone in Allied-occupied Germany, and its borders altered to become contiguous. Thuringia became part of the German Democratic Republic in 1949, but was dissolved in 1952 during administrative reforms, and its territory divided into the districts of Erfurt, Suhl and Gera. Thuringia was re-established in 1990 following German reunification, with slightly different borders, and became one of the Federal Republic of Germany's new states.

other: THÜRINGEN, Thuringia

neighbours: Brunswick Government Region, Saxony-Anhalt, Leipzig Government Region, Lower Franconia, Kassel Government Region, Chemnitz Government Region, Upper Franconia

subregions: Erfurt, Gera, Jena, Suhl, Weimar, Eichsfeld, Nordhausen, Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis, Kyffhäuserkreis, Schmalkalden-Meiningen, Gotha, Landkreis Sömmerda, Landkreis Hildburghausen, Ilm-Kreis, Weimarer Land, Sonneberg, Landkreis Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, Saale-Holzland-Kreis, Saale-Orla-Kreis, Greiz, Altenburger Land, Eisenach, Wartburgkreis

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: EU regions - Thuringia - DEG0, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/eu-regions/DEG0

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