On average in 2021-2022, the share of people who belong to the unemployment halo is greater in the overseas departments than in mainland France, estimates INSEE in a recent note. The halo concerns 10% of the population aged 15 to 64 in Reunion, 11% in Guadeloupe and Martinique, 20% in Mayotte and 21% in Guyana, compared to 4% in mainland France. These people are not considered unemployed within the meaning of the International Labor Office. (BIT), even if their situation is close. The halo around unemployment is in fact made up of unemployed people who have looked for work, but are not immediately available for work, or who have not actively searched, but want to work. The share of the population unemployed and wishing to work, whether she is unemployed or in the halo around unemployment, is, in 2021-2022, two to four times stronger in Overseas than in France : 19% of 15 to 64 year olds in Martinique, 21% in Reunion, 22% in Guadeloupe, 28% in Guyana and 35% in Mayotte, compared to 10% in mainland France. To note : the halo is more feminized than the unemployed population or even than the total population, in the French Overseas Territories as well as in mainland France : 6 out of 10 people in the halo are women.
Halo around unemployment : 10% of the active population
