Gender employment gap by degree of urbanisation

In 2025, Netherlands's gender employment gap by degree of urbanisation increased by 0.0% compared to 2024, reaching 22.8.

Netherlands accounts for 79.2% of the EU-27 total of 28.8.

Netherlands ranks 12th 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 14.6% (from 26.7 in 2020).

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