Tax rate on low wage earners - Unemployment trap

In 2017, Slovakia's tax rate on low wage earners increased by 0.6% compared to 2016, reaching 141.4.

Slovakia accounts for 94.5% of the EU-27 total of 149.6.

Slovakia ranks 20th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 1.6% (from 139.2 in 2012).

Source: Eurostat dataset tesem220, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.