Gender employment gap by degree of urbanisation

In 2025, Ireland's gender employment gap by degree of urbanisation decreased by 3.2% compared to 2024, reaching 27.0.

Ireland accounts for 93.8% of the EU-27 total of 28.8.

Ireland ranks 9th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 25.6% (from 36.3 in 2020).

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