Early leavers from education and training by labour status

In 2025, the EU-27 figure for early leavers from education and training by labour status was 9.1%.

That is a 3.2% fell versus 2024 (9.4%).

Over the five years before that, the EU-27 aggregate moved 9.0% lower.

Across member states, Romania reported the highest value (15.5%, 2025) and Croatia the lowest (2.1%, 2025) — a ratio of 7.4× between the two ends of the range.

The figures below come from Eurostat dataset edat_lfse_14; every value links back to the canonical source.