Aquitaine – FRI1

EU regions: France > Nouvelle-Aquitaine > Aquitaine

Indicator	Period	Value
Life long learning
life long learning participation	2024	17.8
Part time jobs and flexible employment
percentage of part time workers	2024	16.76
percentage of part time workers, men	2024	8.3
percentage of part time workers, women	2024	25.07
Gender differences
gender gap in employment rate	2024	96.64
gender gap in unemployment rate	2024	86.49
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2024	26.5
NEET	2024	8.7
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2023	86
Employment
employment rate	2024	73.2

More on wikipedia wikidata Q1179 on OpenStreetMap Aquitaine slovensky: FRI1

Subregions: Dordogne, Gironde, Landes, Lot-et-Garonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Unemployment

Indicator	Period	Value
Unemployment
unemployment rate	2024	7
youth unemployment rate	2024	16.3
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment	2024	1.3
share of long term unemployed	2024	19.1

Demographics

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2024	3 600 009
population density	2023	86.8
old-age dependency ratio	2024	39.8

Employment by sectors, Aquitaine

NACE r2		%	NACE r2		%
A	39.4	2%	B-E	183.3	11%
F	104.2	6%	G-I	372.6	23%
J	42	3%	K	45.5	3%
L	27.4	2%	M_N	174.6	11%
NRP	30.1	2%	O-Q	489.2	30%
R-U	95.6	6%	TOTAL	1604	100%

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

From Wikipedia:

Aquitaine (UK: AK-wih-TAYN, US: AK-wit-ayn, French: [akitɛn] (listen); Occitan: Aquitània [akiˈtanjɔ]; Basque: Akitania; Poitevin-Saintongeais: Aguiéne), archaic Guyenne or Guienne (Occitan: Guiana), is a historical region of southwestern France and a former administrative region of the country. Since 1 January 2016 it has been part of the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It is situated in the far southwest corner of Metropolitan France, along the Atlantic Ocean and the Pyrenees mountain range on the border with Spain. It is composed of the five departments of Dordogne, Lot-et-Garonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Landes and Gironde. In the Middle Ages, Aquitaine was a kingdom and a duchy, whose boundaries fluctuated considerably.

History

Ancient history

There are traces of human settlement by prehistoric peoples, especially in the Périgord, but the earliest attested inhabitants in the south-west were the Aquitani, who were not considered Celtic people, but more akin to the Iberians (see Gallia Aquitania). Although a number of different languages and dialects were in use in the area during ancient times, it is most likely that the prevailing language of Aquitaine during the late pre-historic to Roman period was an early form of the Basque language. This has been demonstrated by various Aquitanian names and words that were recorded by the Romans, and which are currently easily readable as Basque. Whether this Aquitanian language (Proto-Basque) was a remnant of a Vasconic language group that once extended much farther, or it was generally limited to the Aquitaine/Basque region is not known. One reason the language of Aquitaine is important is because Basque is the last surviving non-Indo-European language in western Europe and it has had some effect on the languages around it, including Spanish and, to a lesser extent, French.

Other: Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Aquitaine, Limousin, Poitou-Charentes

Neighbours: Midi-Pyrénées, Poitou-Charentes, Aragon, Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre, Limousin

Subregions: Dordogne, Gironde, Landes, Lot-et-Garonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - Aquitaine – FRI1, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​PFRI1, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164

---