lfsa_ergaed · 2002–2025
Employment rates by educational attainment level
Eurostat lfsa_ergaed — Employment rates by educational attainment level. Data range: 1983 to 2025.
At a glance
In 2025, the EU-27 figure for employment rates by educational attainment level was 88.1%.
That is a 0.3% rose versus 2024 (87.8%).
Over the five years before that, the EU-27 aggregate moved 3.2% higher.
Across member states, Bulgaria reported the highest value (92.3%, 2025) and Greece the lowest (82.7%, 2025).
The figures below come from Eurostat dataset lfsa_ergaed; every value links back to the canonical source.
EU-27 · 2025
88.1%
HIGHEST · 2025
Bulgaria
92.3%
LOWEST · 2025
Greece
82.7%
Map · 2025
82.7 92.3
Ranking · 2025
Time series · top 12 countries + EU-27
- Bulgaria 92.3
- Romania 92
- Hungary 91.9
- Poland 91.9
- Slovakia 91.4
- Portugal 91.1
- Lithuania 90.9
- Slovenia 90.8
- Malta 90.7
- Netherlands 90.3
- Croatia 90.1
- Sweden 89.5
- European Union (27) 88.1
Country × year heatmap · all values
68.5 93.2
Member states · ranked by latest value
- #1 Bulgaria BG · 2025 92.3%
- #2 Romania RO · 2025 92.0%
- #3 Hungary HU · 2025 91.9%
- #4 Poland PL · 2025 91.9%
- #5 Slovakia SK · 2025 91.4%
- #6 Portugal PT · 2025 91.1%
- #7 Lithuania LT · 2025 90.9%
- #8 Slovenia SI · 2025 90.8%
- #9 Malta MT · 2025 90.7%
- #10 Netherlands NL · 2025 90.3%
- #11 Croatia HR · 2025 90.1%
- #12 Sweden SE · 2025 89.5%
- #13 Estonia EE · 2025 89.0%
- #14 Czechia CZ · 2025 88.8%
- #15 Latvia LV · 2025 88.5%
- #16 Finland FI · 2025 88.4%
- #17 Germany DE · 2025 88.2%
- #18 Ireland IE · 2025 88.0%
- #19 Belgium BE · 2025 87.7%
- #20 France FR · 2025 87.6%
- #21 Denmark DK · 2025 87.4%
- #22 Cyprus CY · 2025 87.3%
- #23 Austria AT · 2025 87.1%
- #24 Luxembourg LU · 2025 86.2%
- #25 Italy IT · 2025 85.3%
- #26 Spain ES · 2025 85.1%
- #27 Greece EL · 2025 82.7%
By year
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- 2024
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- 2022
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Source:
Eurostat · lfsa_ergaed