Poitou-Charentes – FRI3

EU regions: France > Nouvelle-Aquitaine > Poitou-Charentes

Indicator	Period	Value
Life long learning
life long learning participation	2023	13.7
Part time jobs and flexible employment
percentage of part time workers	2023	18.58
percentage of part time workers, men	2023	7.33
percentage of part time workers, women	2023	30.08
Gender differences
gender gap in employment rate	2023	89.78
gender gap in unemployment rate	2023	119.4
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2023	25.9
NEET	2023	13.9
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2022	82
Employment
employment rate	2023	68.6

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	2023	7.4
youth unemployment rate	2023	19.4
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment	2023	1.7
share of long term unemployed	2023	23

Demographics

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2023	1 834 080
population density	2021	70.3
old-age dependency ratio	2023	45.4

Employment by sectors, Poitou-Charentes

NACE r2		%	NACE r2		%
A	44.9	6 %	B-E	117.7	16 %
F	54.3	7 %	G-I	162.6	22 %
J	10.7	1 %	K	25.7	4 %
L	7	1 %	M_N	60.4	8 %
NRP	5.9	1 %	O-Q	208.1	28 %
R-U	33.9	5 %	TOTAL	731.4	100 %

Data for the period year 2023. 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: Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Limousin, Poitou-Charentes, Aquitaine

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

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

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - Poitou-Charentes – FRI3, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​PFRI3, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164

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