Gelderland – NL22

EU regions: Netherlands > Eastern Netherlands > Gelderland

Indicator	Period	Value
Life long learning
life long learning participation	2023	25.6
Part time jobs and flexible employment
percentage of part time workers	2023	41.87
percentage of part time workers, men	2023	20.18
percentage of part time workers, women	2023	66.92
Gender differences
gender gap in employment rate	2023	92.92
gender gap in unemployment rate	2023	94.12
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2023	9.1
NEET	2023	3.3
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2022	108
Employment
employment rate	2023	83.1
Social exclusion
people at risk of poverty or social exclusion	2020	14.6

More on wikipedia wikidata Q775 on OpenStreetMap Gelderland slovensky: NL22

Subregions: Veluwe, Zuidwest-Gelderland, Achterhoek, Arnhem/Nijmegen

Unemployment

Indicator	Period	Value
Unemployment
unemployment rate	2023	3.4
youth unemployment rate	2023	7.6
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment	2023	0.4
share of long term unemployed	2023	13.5

Demographics

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2023	2 133 708
population density	2022	424.3
old-age dependency ratio	2023	33.6

Employment by sectors, Gelderland

NACE r2		%	NACE r2		%
A	24	2 %	B-E	107.7	9 %
F	57.8	5 %	G-I	284.3	24 %
J	41	3 %	K	29.8	3 %
L	8.4	1 %	M_N	147.4	13 %
NRP	20.8	2 %	O-Q	395.2	34 %
R-U	56.3	5 %	TOTAL	1172.7	100 %

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

From Wikipedia:

Gelderland (, also US: , Dutch: [ˈɣɛldərlɑnt] (listen)), also known as Guelders () in English, is a province of the Netherlands, located in the central eastern part of the country. With a land area of nearly 5,000 km², it is the largest province of the Netherlands and shares borders with six other provinces (Flevoland, Limburg, North Brabant, Overijssel, South Holland and Utrecht) and Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia).

The capital is Arnhem (pop. 156,000); however, Nijmegen (pop. 175,000) and Apeldoorn (pop. nearly 161,000) are both larger municipalities (2017 figures). Other major regional centres in Gelderland are Ede, Doetinchem, Zutphen, Harderwijk, Tiel, Wageningen, Zevenaar, and Winterswijk. Gelderland had a population of just over two million in 2018.

History

Historically, the province dates from states of the Holy Roman Empire and takes its name from the nearby German city of Geldern. According to the Wichard saga, the city was named by the Lords of Pont who fought and killed a dragon in 878 AD. They named the town they founded after the death rattle of the dragon: "Gelre!"

The County of Guelders arose out of the Frankish pagus Hamaland in the 11th century around castles near Roermond and Geldern. The counts of Gelre acquired the Betuwe and Veluwe regions and, through marriage, the County of Zutphen.

Other: Eastern Netherlands, Overijssel, Gelderland, Flevoland

Neighbours: Overijssel, North Brabant, Flevoland, Utrecht, Düsseldorf Government Region, Münster Government Region, South Holland, Limburg

Subregions: Veluwe, Zuidwest-Gelderland, Achterhoek, Arnhem/Nijmegen

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - Gelderland – NL22, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​PNL22, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164

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