Poitou-Charentes – FRI3

EU regions: France > New Aquitaine > Poitou-Charentes

Indicator	Period	Value
Life long learning
life long learning participation	2022	11.2
Part time jobs and flexible employment
percentage of part time workers	2022	18.59
percentage of part time workers, men	2022	7.59
percentage of part time workers, women	2022	29.53
Gender differences
gender gap in employment rate	2022	93.31
gender gap in unemployment rate	2022	88.16
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2022	41.6
NEET	2022	11.6
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2021	85
Employment
employment rate	2022	67.9

More on wikipedia wikidata Q17009 on OpenStreetMap Poitou-Charentes slovensky: FRI3

Subregions: Charente, Charente-Maritime, Deux-Sèvres, Vienne

Unemployment

Indicator	Period	Value
Unemployment
unemployment rate	2022	7.2
youth unemployment rate	2022	17.2
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment	2022	1.9
share of long term unemployed	2022	26.4

Demographics

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2022	1 829 115
population density	2022	70.5
old-age dependency ratio	2022	44.6

Employment by sectors, Poitou-Charentes

NACE r2		%	NACE r2		%
A	36.6	5 %	B-E	113.3	16 %
F	50.9	7 %	G-I	148.6	21 %
J	10.5	1 %	K	27.7	4 %
L	6	1 %	M_N	58.1	8 %
NRP	7.9	1 %	O-Q	201.9	28 %
R-U	50.7	7 %	TOTAL	712.2	100 %

Data for the period year 2022. Source of the data is Eurostat, table [lfst_r_lfe2en2].

From Wikipedia: Poitou-Charentes (French pronunciation: [pwatu ʃaʁɑ̃t] (listen); Occitan: Peitau-Charantas; Poitevin-Saintongese: Poetou-Chérentes) is a former administrative region on the south-west coast of France. It is part of the new region Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It comprises four departments: Charente, Charente-Maritime, Deux-Sèvres and Vienne. Historical provinces are Angoumois, Aunis, Saintonge and Poitou.

The regional capital is Poitiers. Other important cities are La Rochelle, Niort, Angoulême, Châtellerault, Saintes, Rochefort and Royan.

Poitou-Charentes was merged with Aquitaine and Limousin to form the new administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine on January 1, 2016.

Politics

The regional council is composed of 56 members. The region is the home of France's losing presidential candidate Socialist Ségolène Royal in the election of 2007.

Demographics

In French, the region's residents are known as Picto-Charentais.

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

Neighbours: Limousin, Centre-Val de Loire, Pays de la Loire, Aquitaine

Subregions: Charente, Charente-Maritime, Deux-Sèvres, Vienne

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: EU regions - Poitou-Charentes – FRI3, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​en/projects/eu-regions/FRI3

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