Employment rates by educational attainment level

In 2017, Spain's employment rates by educational attainment level increased by 1.4% compared to 2016, reaching 80.9%.

The figure is below the EU-27 average of 85.3%.

Spain ranks 24th 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 4.4% (from 77.5% in 2012).

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