# EU countries by employment-population ratio, ages 15 and over, 2025

All 27 values come from World Bank for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `employment_population_ratio_15_plus`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Employed people as a percentage of the population aged 15 and over. ILO modelled estimates published by the World Bank, annual.
- Source: World Bank, Employment to population ratio, 15+, total, %, modeled ILO estimate (SL.EMP.TOTL.SP.ZS) (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.EMP.TOTL.SP.ZS)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/world-bank
- Retrieved: 2026-10-11
- Citation: World Bank, World Development Indicators, modelled estimate. Employment to population ratio, 15+, total, %, modeled ILO estimate (SL.EMP.TOTL.SP.ZS). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.EMP.TOTL.SP.ZS. Retrieved 2026-10-11.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/employment-population-ratio-15-plus/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Netherlands | 64.6 |
| 2 | Cyprus | 63.7 |
| 3 | Malta | 62.1 |
| 4 | Ireland | 61.8 |
| 5 | Denmark | 61.3 |
| 6 | Estonia | 59.7 |
| 7 | Sweden | 59 |
| 8 | Lithuania | 58.7 |
| 9 | Czechia | 58.6 |
| 10 | Germany | 58.3 |
| 11 | Hungary | 57.8 |
| 12 | Luxembourg | 57.6 |
| 13 | Slovakia | 57.2 |
| 14 | Austria | 56.8 |
| 15 | Poland | 56.6 |
| 16 | Latvia | 56.5 |
| 17 | Slovenia | 55.7 |
| 18 | Portugal | 54.6 |
| 19 | Bulgaria | 54.1 |
| 20 | Finland | 54 |
| 21 | Spain | 51.5 |
| 22 | France | 51.2 |
| 23 | Belgium | 51.1 |
| 24 | Croatia | 49.5 |
| 25 | Romania | 48.3 |
| 26 | Greece | 47.5 |
| 27 | Italy | 46.2 |