Gender employment gap by degree of urbanisation

In 2025, Belgium's gender employment gap by degree of urbanisation decreased by 11.3% compared to 2024, reaching 21.3.

Belgium accounts for 74.0% of the EU-27 total of 28.8.

Belgium ranks 14th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 13.4% (from 24.6 in 2020).

Source: Eurostat dataset tepsr_lm230, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.