# Employment rate of recent graduates in Denmark

Employment rate of recent graduates in Denmark was 85.5% in 2025 (break). Source: Eurostat, European Commission.

- Indicator id: `recent_graduates_employment_rate`
- Place id: `dk`
- 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/denmark
- API: https://invokely.ai/api/v1/series?indicator=recent_graduates_employment_rate&place=dk

| Period | % |
|---|---:|
| 2025 | 85.5 (break) |
| 2024 | 85 |
| 2023 | 84.6 (break) |
| 2022 | 85.1 |
| 2021 | 84.1 (break) |
| 2020 | 83.6 |
| 2019 | 85.1 |
| 2018 | 84.7 |
| 2017 | 81.7 (break) |
| 2016 | 82.6 (break) |
| 2015 | 80.8 |
| 2014 | 82.5 (break) |
| 2013 | 80.6 |
| 2012 | 83.4 |
| 2011 | 81.9 |
| 2010 | 81.8 |
| 2009 | 86.2 |
| 2008 | 89.1 (break) |
| 2007 | 90.9 (break) |
| 2006 | 89 |
| 2005 | 86.4 |
| 2004 | 82.6 |
| 2003 | 84.8 (break) |
| 2002 | 89.4 |
| 2001 | 90.2 |
| 2000 | 87.7 |