Employment rate of recent graduates in Ireland

Employment rate of recent graduates in Ireland was 89.1% in 2025, according to Eurostat, European Commission. That is up 1.4 pts from 2024. That is the 4th highest of 27 EU countries in 2025.

202589.1%

Change on 2024+1.4 pts

Rank4th of 27EU countries ranked

Series high90.42007

Series low70.82012

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Employment rate of recent graduates in Ireland, 2002 to 2025

%. Source: 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). Retrieved 2026-10-18, published 2026-09-10.

All 24 values

Period	%
2025	89.1
2024	87.7 Series break
2023	88.7
2022	87.3
2021	86.5 Series break
2020	79.5
2019	84.5
2018	84.3
2017	83.5 Series break
2016	82.2
2015	77.9
2014	76 Series break
2013	74.5
2012	70.8
2011	72.2
2010	72.7
2009	77.3
2008	86.6
2007	90.4 Series break
2006	88.5 Series break
2005	85.3
2004	86.1 Series break
2003	87.3
2002	84

Compared with European Union (27)

Place	2025
Ireland	89.1
European Union (27)	82.9

Ireland compared with nearby places

Under 80
80 to 83
83 to 85
85 to 87
87 and over

Employment rate of recent graduates, 2025, %. Ireland is outlined. Same source and period for every area shown. Source: Eurostat, European Commission. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

Rankings

EU countries by employment rate of recent graduates 27 places

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.

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.

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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.

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Eurostat, European Commission. (2026). 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) (Employment rate of recent graduates, Ireland, 2002 to 2025) [Data set]. Retrieved October 18, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/edat_lfse_24/default/table

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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), Employment rate of recent graduates, Ireland, 2002 to 2025. Eurostat, European Commission, 10 Sept. 2026, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/edat_lfse_24/default/table. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/recent-graduates-employment-rate/ireland. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

Eurostat, European Commission. 2026. 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). Employment rate of recent graduates, Ireland, 2002 to 2025. Dataset. Accessed October 18, 2026. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/edat_lfse_24/default/table. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/recent-graduates-employment-rate/ireland.

Harvard

Eurostat, European Commission (2026) 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), Employment rate of recent graduates, Ireland, 2002 to 2025 [Dataset]. Available at: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/edat_lfse_24/default/table, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/en/recent-graduates-employment-rate/ireland (Accessed: 18 October 2026).

BibTeX

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  urldate = {2026-10-18},
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What is the employment rate of recent graduates in Ireland?

Employment rate of recent graduates in Ireland was 89.1% in 2025, according to Eurostat, European Commission. That is up 1.4 pts from 2024. That is the 4th highest of 27 EU countries in 2025.

Where does this figure come from?

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). Retrieved by Invokely on 2026-10-18.

What was the highest employment rate of recent graduates in Ireland?

90.4% in 2007, the highest value since 2002 in this series.

Employment rate of recent graduates elsewhere in European Union (27)

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