Gender employment gap by degree of urbanisation

In 2018, Ireland's gender employment gap by degree of urbanisation increased by 0.8% compared to 2017, reaching 36.6.

Ireland accounts for 104.3% of the EU-27 total of 35.1.

Ireland ranks 9th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 16.2% (from 31.5 in 2013).

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