Hauts-de-France – FRE

Indicator	Period	Value
Life long learning
life long learning participation	2025	13.7
Part time jobs and flexible employment
percentage of part time workers	2025	17.23
percentage of part time workers, men	2025	7.53
percentage of part time workers, women	2025	27.73
Gender differences
gender gap in employment rate	2025	90.74
gender gap in unemployment rate	2025	97.67
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2025	40.2
NEET	2025	12.2
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2024	76
Employment
employment rate	2025	66.9

Hauts-de-France slovensky: FRE

Subregions: Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Picardy

Unemployment

Indicator	Period	Value
Unemployment
unemployment rate	2025	8.5
youth unemployment rate	2025	23.2
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment	2025	2.2
share of long term unemployed	2025	25.6

Demographics

population pyramid of FRE Hauts-de-France in 1996

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2025	5 974 447
population density	2024	188
old-age dependency ratio	2025	32.6

population pyramid of FRE Hauts-de-France

Employment by sectors, Hauts-de-France

NACE r2		%	NACE r2		%
A	43.8	2%	B-E	379.5	15%
F	149.3	6%	G-I	603.4	24%
J	59	2%	K	78.4	3%
L	27.6	1%	M_N	210.5	8%
NRP	44.7	2%	O-Q	766.3	31%
R-U	122.3	5%	TOTAL	2484.9	100%

Data for the period year 2025. Source of the data is Eurostat, table [lfst_r_lfe2en2].

Employment by sectors, Hauts-de-France, 2025

From Wikipedia : Hauts-de-France (French: [o də fʁɑ̃s] (listen); lit. 'Heights of France') is the northernmost region of France, created by the territorial reform of French Regions in 2014, from a merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy. Its capital is Lille. The new region came into existence on 1 January 2016, after the regional elections in December 2015. France's Conseil d'État approved Hauts-de-France as the name of the region on 28 September 2016, effective 30 September 2016.

With 6,009,976 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2015) and a population density of 189 inhabitants/km², it is the third most populous region in France and the second most densely populated in metropolitan France after its southern neighbour Île-de-France.

Toponymy

The region's interim name Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie was a hyphenated placename, created by hyphenating the merged regions' names—Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardie—in alphabetical order.

On 14 March 2016, well ahead of the 1 July deadline, the Regional council decided on Hauts-de-France as the region's permanent name. The provisional name of the region was retired on 30 September 2016, when the new name of the region, Hauts-de-France, took effect.

Geography

The region covers an area of more than 31,813 km² (12,283 sq mi). It borders Belgium (Flanders and Wallonia) to the northeast, the North Sea to the north, the English Channel to the west, as well as the French regions of Grand Est to the east-southeast, Île-de-France to the south, and Normandy to the west-southwest. It is connected to the United Kingdom (England) via the Channel Tunnel.

Departments

Hauts-de-France comprises five departments: Aisne, Nord, Oise, Pas-de-Calais, and Somme.

Major communities

Lille (227,560; region prefecture; surrounding area is home to over 1.5 million inhabitants)
Amiens (133,448)
Roubaix (94,713)
Tourcoing (91,923)
Dunkirk (90,995)
Calais (72,589)
Villeneuve-d'Ascq (62,308)
Saint-Quentin (55,978)
Beauvais (54,289)
Valenciennes (42,691)

Economy

The Gross domestic product (GDP) of the region was 161.7 billion euros in 2018, accounting for 6.9 % of French economic output.

Other: France, Île-de-France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Normandy, Occitania, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Hauts-de-France, Pays de la Loire, overseas department and region of France, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Centre-Val de Loire, Grand Est, Brittany, Corsica, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Neighbours: Flemish Region, Grand Est, Normandy, Île-de-France, Wallonia