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Household consumer prices fell by 1% in Reunion, according to INSEE. Those of services fell by 0,8% in twelve months, while the prices of manufactured goods fell by 0,7%. Energy prices have for their part fallen significantly on the island (-11%), more than the average in France (-7%). The costs...

Employment in tourism-related activities has increased significantly (+37%) in Réunion between 2011 and 2018, i.e. growth 2,3 times higher than that of total employment according to an INSEE study. Tourism employed 13,500 people in 2018, or 4,6% of total employment. Self-employed people held 20% of these jobs (contre 12 %...

28,864 vehicles were registered in Reunion last year, figure down 136% compared to 2019. The decrease was a little more pronounced for commercial vehicles (-16,8%) only for private vehicles (-12,9%). The decline in sales to rental companies, on the other hand, was brutal (-40%), linked to the collapse in tourist numbers....

From June 20, Corsair will offer a program of flights to Reunion from Marseille and Lyon, twice a week. These connections will also be accessible to customers from Mayotte, via express connection in the departure lounge of Roland-Garros airport (one hour in the Mayotte-metropolis direction, 1h35 in the return direction to Mayotte). Ces...

In 2018, 340,000 Reunion Islanders were in a situation of material and social deprivation, or 40% of the population, according to INSEE. This share is three times higher than in mainland France and of the same order as the monetary poverty rate. Some of these basic deprivations affect a majority of the population, like the lack of savings (seven out of ten people),...

In 2017, the state entrusted Qualitropic, the overseas tropical bioeconomy cluster, the coordination of a project consisting in creating agricultural personal protective equipment adapted to tropical conditions. Existing PPE, unsuitable for heat and humidity, are in fact shunned by Domian farmers who thus expose themselves to the phytosanitary products that they spread on their....

In its latest demographic report, l’Insee évalue à 860 000 habitants la population de la Réunion au 1er janvier 2020. A population that continues to grow at a rate greater than that of the metropolis : + 0,5% par an entre 2010 et 2020, contre + 0,3%. The natural balance, difference between births and deaths, reste le moteur...

Réunion is ranked 25th among French departments in terms of population, according to the latest calculation of legal populations (the figures taken into account by the regulations, especially those of local finances). As of January 1, 2018, we were 855,961 people residing on the island, whose population grew on average by 0,5% per year...

The business climate indicator calculated by the Overseas Departments Issuing Institute increased by 3,7 points in the third quarter of 2020 in Reunion, approaching his long-run average. The upturn in economic activity has resulted in an improvement in the labor market : 3,600 jobs were created in the private sector on....

Supplement to its offer on departure from Orly, Air France is preparing to strengthen its overseas service from Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle. Launched last December, connections between Roissy and the Antilles (Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe and Fort-de-France in Martinique) will see their frequencies increase from March 28, with seven flights per week to and from each of the two islands....