reunion island (fra) Capital: saint-denis Pos.: Surface: 2.510 Kmq Population 2020: 895.000 Pop. density: 356,57 in./Kmq Pop. growth 12ys:  +8,22 % GDP per capita: 21.006 $ Nominal GDP 2020: 18,800 billions $ PPP per capita: n.d. GDP PPP 2020: n.d. Internet TLD:
It is an island in the Indian Ocean that is an overseas department and region of France. It is located approximately 950 km (590 mi) east of the island of Madagascar and 175 km (109 mi) southwest of the island of Mauritius. As of January 2022, it had a population of 868,846. Like the other four overseas departments, Réunion also holds the status of a region of France, and is an integral part of the French Republic. Réunion is an outermost region of the European Union and is part of the eurozone Economy: Unemployment is a major problem on Réunion, although the situation has improved markedly since the beginning of the 2000s: the unemployment rate, which stood above 30% from the early 1980s to the early 2000s, declined to 24.6% in 2007, then  rebounded to 30.0% in 2011 due to the 2008 global financial crisis and subsequent Great Recession, but declined again after 2011, reaching 21.5% in 2019, its lowest level in 40 years. Rum distillation contributes to the island's economy
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