Occitania - FRJ

EU regions: France > Occitania

indicator	period	value
long term unemployment	2021	2.7
share of long term unemployed	2021	31.2
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2020	86
unemployment rate	2021	8.6
employment rate	2021	65.4
number of inhabitants	2021	6 013 289
population density	2019	81.6
percentage of part time workers, men	2021	8.28
percentage of part time workers, women	2021	30.49
life long learning participation	2021	10.7
youth unemployment rate	2021	21.1
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2021	35
NEET	2021	11
old-age dependency ratio	2021	38.6
gender gap in employment rate	2021	89.99
gender gap in unemployment rate	2021	91.01

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

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:

Occitanie (French pronunciation: [ɔksitani] (listen); Occitan: Occitània [utsiˈtanjɔ]; Catalan: Occitània [uksiˈtaniə]), Occitany or Occitania () is the southernmost administrative region of metropolitan France excluding Corsica, created on 1 January 2016 from the former regions of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées. The Conseil d'État approved Occitanie as the new name of the region on 28 September 2016, coming into effect on 30 September 2016.

The modern administrative region is named after the larger cultural and historical region of Occitania, which corresponds with the southern third of France. The region Occitanie as it is today covers a territory similar to that ruled by the Counts of Toulouse in the 12th and 13th centuries. The banner of arms of the Counts of Toulouse, known colloquially as the Occitan cross, is used by the modern region and is also a popular cultural symbol.

Toponymy

Enacted in 2014, the territorial reform of the French regions had been subject to debate for many years. The reform law used as the new region's provisional name the hyphenated names of its predecessors: Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées, in alphabetical order. As for most of the merged regions, a permanent name was then proposed by the new regional council to replace that provisional name. On 24 June 2016, the regional council of Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées adopted the name Occitanie after lengthy public consultation. The provisional name of the region was withdrawn on 30 September 2016, when the new name took effect.

Occitanie, the new name, derives from the historical appellation of the broader region, and refers to the historical use throughout that territory of the Occitan language and its various dialects, which are so named for the word òc, the Occitan word for oui or „yes“. The circa 450,000 French Catalans living in the region (or Catalans of the North, as they mostly call themselves) expressed dismay at the regional assembly resolution, regarding the new name as ignoring their presence.

other: France, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, PROVENCE-ALPES-CÔTE D’AZUR, CENTRE – VAL DE LOIRE, CORSE, Île-de-France, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Normandy, overseas department and region of France, Grand Est, BRETAGNE, Hauts-de-France, PAYS DE LA LOIRE, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Occitania

neighbours: Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Este, PROVENCE-ALPES-CÔTE D’AZUR, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Noreste

subregions: Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrénées

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

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