As every year, INSEE published its social portrait of France on Thursday. But this time, the exercise is a bit special. The institute is putting the spotlight on the state of the country more than a year after the start of the coronavirus crisis, in a context that still remains uncertain, with the strong resumption of the epidemic in Europe. In addition to detailing the heavy death toll caused by the virus, which stands at 116,000 over the four waves, as well as the strong tensions in the health sector, experts are scrutinizing the social and economic impact of the pandemic . And the observation is again made: if the pandemic plunged France into the most violent recession since the end of the Second World War, with a collapse of the GDP of 8% in 2020, the purchasing power of the French has been preserved. ,unemployment did not explode in the end, even though the number of hours worked fell.
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