Gender employment gap by degree of urbanisation

In 2025, Germany's gender employment gap by degree of urbanisation decreased by 4.2% compared to 2024, reaching 20.4.

Germany accounts for 70.8% of the EU-27 total of 28.8.

Germany ranks 16th 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 10.5% (from 22.8 in 2020).

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