# EU countries by early leavers from education and training, ages 18 to 24, 2025

All 26 values come from Eurostat, European Commission for 2025, so the places are comparable. 1 EU countries have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- Indicator id: `early_leavers_education_training_18_24`
- Unit: %
- Definition: People aged 18 to 24 who have completed lower secondary education at most (ISCED 2011 levels 0 to 2) and received no formal or non-formal education or training in the four weeks before the survey, as a percentage of all people aged 18 to 24 (EU Labour Force Survey).
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Early leavers from education and training by labour status, all persons, 18 to 24 years (edat_lfse_14) (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/edat_lfse_14/default/table)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/eurostat
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Eurostat. Early leavers from education and training by labour status, all persons, 18 to 24 years (edat_lfse_14). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/edat_lfse_14/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/early-leavers-education-training/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Romania | 15.5 |
| 2 | Germany | 13.1 |
| 3 | Spain | 12.8 |
| 4 | Estonia | 10.2 |
| 5 | Austria | 10 |
| 5 | Denmark | 10 |
| 7 | Finland | 9.9 |
| 8 | Cyprus | 9.8 |
| 9 | Hungary | 9.3 |
| 10 | Latvia | 8.8 |
| 11 | Bulgaria | 8.6 |
| 11 | Malta | 8.6 |
| 13 | Italy | 8.2 |
| 14 | Netherlands | 7.4 |
| 15 | Belgium | 7.3 |
| 16 | France | 7.2 |
| 17 | Slovakia | 6.8 |
| 18 | Sweden | 6.7 |
| 19 | Czechia | 6.1 |
| 19 | Portugal | 6.1 |
| 21 | Lithuania | 5.9 |
| 22 | Slovenia | 5.5 |
| 23 | Poland | 4 |
| 24 | Ireland | 3.6 |
| 25 | Greece | 3 |
| 26 | Croatia | 2.1 |