Le taux d’emploi des 20-64 ans dans l’Union européenne atteint un nouveau pic de 72,2 % en 2017

A man passes in front of an Pole Emploi (Employment Office) panel on March 8, 2017 in Dunkirk. The upswing is there: the French economy has created close to 190,000 net positions in 2016, an unprecedented feat on the front of private employment since the crisis, despite limited growth. However, unemployment remains high, with 9.7% of the working population in 2016 in metropolitan France, 10% in France, or 2.81 million unemployed, according to Insee statistics. Pole Emploi, the Employment Office, for its part, lists in the metropolis 3.47 million unemployed job seekers. / AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE HUGUEN