Asturias – ES12

EU regions: Spain > Noroeste > Asturias

Indicator	Period	Value
Life long learning
life long learning participation	2024	16.3
Part time jobs and flexible employment
percentage of part time workers	2024	12.03
percentage of part time workers, men	2024	4.23
percentage of part time workers, women	2024	20.19
Gender differences
gender gap in employment rate	2024	91.74
gender gap in unemployment rate	2024	120.65
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2024	46
NEET	2024	9.6
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2023	82
Employment
employment rate	2024	65
Social exclusion
people at risk of poverty or social exclusion	2020	27.7

More on wikipedia wikidata Q3934 on OpenStreetMap Asturias slovensky: ES12

Subregions: Province of Asturias

Unemployment

Indicator	Period	Value
Unemployment
unemployment rate	2024	10.2
youth unemployment rate	2024	32.9
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment	2024	4.5
share of long term unemployed	2024	44.5

Demographics

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2024	1 009 599
population density	2023	95.4
old-age dependency ratio	2024	45.1

Employment by sectors, Asturias

NACE r2		%	NACE r2		%
A	13.9	3%	B-E	62.7	15%
F	32.6	8%	G-I	115.5	28%
J	12.7	3%	K	6.5	2%
L	3.7	1%	M_N	35.3	9%
O-Q	103.2	25%	R-U	27.6	7%
TOTAL	413.6	100%

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

From Wikipedia:

Asturias (, Spanish: [asˈtuɾjas]; Asturian: Asturies [asˈtuɾjes; -ɾjɪs]; Eonaviego: Asturias), officially the Principality of Asturias (Spanish: Principado de Asturias; Asturian: Principáu d'Asturies), is an autonomous community in north-west Spain. It is coextensive with the province of Asturias, and contains some of the territory that was part of the larger Kingdom of Asturias in the Middle Ages. Divided into eight comarcas (counties), the autonomous community of Asturias is bordered by Cantabria to the east, by León (Castile and León) to the south, by Lugo (Galicia) to the west, and by the Bay of Biscay (Cantanbric sea) to the north.

The most important cities are the communal capital, Oviedo (Uviéu), the seaport and largest city Gijón (Xixón), and the industrial town of Avilés. Other municipalities in Asturias include Cangas de Onís (Cangues d'Onís), Cangas del Narcea, Gozón, Grado (Grau or Grao), Langreo (Llangréu), Llanera, Laviana (Llaviana), Lena (Ḷḷena), Llanes, Mieres, Siero, Valdés, Vegadeo (A Veiga) and Villaviciosa (see also List of municipalities and comarcas in Asturias).

Asturias is also home of the Princess of Asturias Awards.

History

Asturias was inhabited, first by Homo erectus, then by Neanderthals. Since the Lower Paleolithic era, and during the Upper Paleolithic, Asturias was characterized by cave paintings in the eastern part of the area. In the Mesolithic period, a native culture developed, that of the Asturiense, and later, with the introduction of the Bronze Age, megaliths and tumuli were constructed. In the Iron Age, the territory came under the cultural influence of the Celts; the local Celtic peoples, known as the Astures, were composed of tribes such as the Luggones, the Pesicos, and others, who populated the entire area with castros (fortified hill-towns).

Other: Noroeste, Asturias, Galicia, Cantabria

Neighbours: Galicia, Castile and León, Cantabria

Subregions: Province of Asturias

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - Asturias – ES12, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​PES12, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164

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