Tax rate on low wage earners - Unemployment trap

In 2024, the EU-27 figure for tax rate on low wage earners was 148.8 .

That is a 0.4% rose versus 2023 (148.3).

Over the five years before that, the EU-27 aggregate moved 0.2% lower.

Across member states, Lithuania reported the highest value (204.4, 2024) and Greece the lowest (88.2, 2024) — a ratio of 2.3× between the two ends of the range.

The figures below come from Eurostat dataset tesem220; every value links back to the canonical source.