Picardy – FRE2

EU regions: France > Hauts-de-France > Picardy

Indicator	Period	Value
Life long learning
life long learning participation	2023	11.4
Part time jobs and flexible employment
percentage of part time workers	2023	16.05
percentage of part time workers, men	2023	6.06
percentage of part time workers, women	2023	27.39
Gender differences
gender gap in employment rate	2023	90.01
gender gap in unemployment rate	2023	83.67
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2023	41.9
NEET	2023	14.4
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2022	75
Employment
employment rate	2023	64.7

wikidata Q13950 on OpenStreetMap Picardy slovensky: FRE2

Subregions: Aisne, Oise, Somme

Unemployment

Indicator	Period	Value
Unemployment
unemployment rate	2023	9.2
youth unemployment rate	2023	21.8
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment	2023	2.8
share of long term unemployed	2023	31.1

Demographics

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2023	1 916 353
population density	2021	99.4
old-age dependency ratio	2023	33

Employment by sectors, Picardy

NACE r2		%	NACE r2		%
A	28.8	4 %	B-E	121.1	16 %
F	46.3	6 %	G-I	193	25 %
J	15.3	2 %	K	17.2	2 %
M_N	76.3	10 %	O-Q	216	28 %
R-U	42.1	5 %	TOTAL	765.7	100 %

Data for the period year 2023. Source of the data is Eurostat, table [lfst_r_lfe2en2].

From Wikipedia : Picardy (; Picard and French: Picardie, French pronunciation: ​[pikaʁdi], Picard: [pika(ː)rdi]) is a historical territory and a former administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it has been part of the new region of Hauts-de-France. It is located in the northern part of France.

History

The historical province of Picardy stretched from north of Noyon to Calais via the whole of the Somme department and the north of the Aisne department. The province of Artois (Arras area) separated Picardy from French Flanders.

Middle Ages

From the 5th century, the area formed part of the Frankish Empire and, in the feudal period, it encompassed the six countships of Boulogne, Montreuil, Ponthieu, Amiénois, Vermandois and Laonnois. In accordance with the provisions of the 843 Treaty of Verdun, the region became part of West Francia, the later Kingdom of France.

The name „Picardy" derives from the Old French pic, meaning „pike“, the characteristic weapon used by people from this region in ancient times. The term „Picardy" was first used in the early 13th century, during which time the name applied to all lands where the Picard language was spoken including territories from Paris to the Netherlands. In the Latin Quarter of Paris, people identified a "Picard Nation" (Nation Picarde) of students at Sorbonne University, most of whom actually came from Flanders.

Other: Hauts-de-France, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Picardy

Neighbours: Champagne-Ardenne, Upper Normandy, Île-de-France, Hainaut, Nord-Pas-de-Calais

Subregions: Aisne, Oise, Somme

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - Picardy – FRE2, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​PFRE2, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164

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