Gender employment gap

In 2025, the EU-27 figure for gender employment gap was 19.2 .

That is a 4.0% fell versus 2024 (20.0).

Over the five years before that, the EU-27 aggregate moved 12.7% lower.

Across member states, Italy reported the highest value (38.2, 2025) and Estonia the lowest (1.00, 2025) — a ratio of 38.2× between the two ends of the range.

The figures below come from Eurostat dataset tesem060; every value links back to the canonical source.