# Employment rate of recent graduates in Germany

Employment rate of recent graduates in Germany was 90.6% in 2025. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.

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

| Period | % |
|---|---:|
| 2025 | 90.6 |
| 2024 | 90.4 (break) |
| 2023 | 91.6 |
| 2022 | 92.2 |
| 2021 | 91.2 (break) |
| 2020 | 89.6 (break) |
| 2019 | 92.7 |
| 2018 | 92.1 |
| 2017 | 90.9 |
| 2016 | 90.1 |
| 2015 | 90.4 |
| 2014 | 90 (break) |
| 2013 | 89.7 |
| 2012 | 88.9 (break) |
| 2011 | 88.3 (break) |
| 2010 | 86 (break) |
| 2009 | 85.3 |
| 2008 | 86.5 (break) |
| 2007 | 84.2 |
| 2006 | 82.1 |
| 2005 | 79.6 (break) |
| 2004 | 81 |
| 2003 | 83.5 (break) |
| 2002 | 86.5 |
| 2001 | 88.2 |
| 2000 | 89.2 |