All is relative.
This is the poorest department in France, mainland France and overseas territories included.
Wealth per capita measured by gross domestic product (GDP) is only 9,711 euros, compared to 34,100 for the national average, or 3.5 times less, according to the most recent figures from INSEE.
And yet the island of Mayotte, the 101st French department since March 2011 following a final referendum by the Mahorais (its inhabitants), is an Eldorado compared to its neighbor, the Comoros archipelago and its three islands. main, barely 70 kilometers from the French coast.
The gap in standard of living between the two territories belonging to distinct sovereign states is 13, calculated the geographer Stéphane Rosière.
It is one of the six borders where socio-economic discontinuity is the most pronounced in the world.
In his book
Iron Borders.
The compartmentalization of the world
(Éditions Syllepse) the professor at the University of Reims establishes the following classification…
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