Economic+Characteristics

**Paris is the chief financial, marketing, and distribution center of France. One-fourth of France's workforce is in Paris. Paris's leading industries include toursism, banking and manufacturing of high end items such as fashion, colonges, and jewelry. In the periphery, autombobile manufacturing is a major employer. The manufacturing base has been reduced since its peak in the 1970's to 10% of the regions GDP. In 2007, its GDP was $731.3 billion in U.S. dollars, making it te fifth largest of any urban area in the world. Economically speaking, the agglomeration of Paris is among the largest economic centers in the world, with the fifth largest gross metropolitian product in the world. In the year of 1999, they had a low percentage of people in the primary sector and the secondary sector but a high percantage of people in the tertiary sector. In the primary sector, they had 26,741 people in employment which was 0.5% of total workforce. In the secondary sector, they had 913,503 people in employment which was 17.9% of total workforce. In the tertiary sector of their economy, they had 4,148,935 people in employment which was 81.6% of total workforce.**