# Employment rate of recent graduates in Croatia

Employment rate of recent graduates in Croatia was 78.1% in 2025. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.

- Indicator id: `recent_graduates_employment_rate`
- Place id: `hr`
- Unit: %
- Definition: 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.
- Note: 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.
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Employment rate of people aged 20 to 34 not in education or training, 1 to 3 years after completing upper secondary or tertiary education (edat_lfse_24) (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/edat_lfse_24/default/table)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/eurostat
- Retrieved: 2026-10-18
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- Citation: Eurostat. Employment rate of people aged 20 to 34 not in education or training, 1 to 3 years after completing upper secondary or tertiary education (edat_lfse_24). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/edat_lfse_24/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-18.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/en/recent-graduates-employment-rate/croatia
- API: https://invokely.ai/api/v1/series?indicator=recent_graduates_employment_rate&place=hr

| Period | % |
|---|---:|
| 2025 | 78.1 |
| 2024 | 81.4 |
| 2023 | 78.1 |
| 2022 | 79.7 |
| 2021 | 75.8 (break) |
| 2020 | 75.8 |
| 2019 | 75.3 |
| 2018 | 70.7 |
| 2017 | 65.4 |
| 2016 | 72.7 |
| 2015 | 62.7 |
| 2014 | 63.4 (break) |
| 2013 | 54.6 |
| 2012 | 59.9 |
| 2011 | 63.3 |
| 2010 | 70.4 (break) |
| 2009 | 77.4 |
| 2008 | 78.7 |
| 2007 | 74.4 (break) |
| 2006 | 71.2 (break) |
| 2005 | 64.1 (break) |
| 2004 | 63 |