Employment rate of recent graduates
Employed people aged 20 to 34 who completed upper secondary or tertiary education (ISCED 2011 levels 3 to 8) one to three years before the survey and are no longer in education or training, as a percentage of all people in that group.
The indicator of the EU target that 82% of recent graduates should be employed by 2030. From the EU labour force survey. Eurostat flags series breaks (most in 2021, under the new framework regulation for social statistics); they are stored as status break.
Key facts
- Employment rate of recent graduates in the European Union (27) was 82.9% in 2025, according to Eurostat, European Commission.
- Malta had the highest employment rate of recent graduates of 27 EU countries in 2025, at 91%, and Greece the lowest, at 62.4%. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.
- Published for 28 places, with figures from 2000 to 2025.
Rankings
EU countries by employment rate of recent graduates, 2025
Places with data
World, EU and euro area
Countries
- Germany
- France
- Italy
- Spain
- Poland
- Romania
- Netherlands
- Belgium
- Czechia
- Portugal
- Hungary
- Malta
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Greece
- Luxembourg
Use this data in your AI agent
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Which places have the highest employment rate of recent graduates? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"recent_graduates_employment_rate","level":"country","within":"European Union (27)"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=recent_graduates_employment_rate&level=country&within=European%20Union%20(27)