# EU countries by employment rate of recent graduates, 2025

All 27 values come from Eurostat, European Commission for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `recent_graduates_employment_rate`
- 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.
- 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
- 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/rankings/recent-graduates-employment-rate/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Malta | 91 |
| 2 | Germany | 90.6 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 90.1 |
| 4 | Ireland | 89.1 |
| 5 | Austria | 87.9 |
| 6 | Sweden | 87 |
| 7 | Hungary | 86.7 |
| 8 | Czechia | 86.5 |
| 9 | Lithuania | 86.4 |
| 10 | Denmark | 85.5 |
| 11 | Luxembourg | 84.8 |
| 11 | Slovakia | 84.8 |
| 13 | Slovenia | 84.7 |
| 14 | Poland | 84.6 |
| 15 | Latvia | 83.1 |
| 16 | Belgium | 82.9 |
| 17 | Cyprus | 82.3 |
| 18 | Portugal | 82.2 |
| 19 | Bulgaria | 81.2 |
| 19 | Spain | 81.2 |
| 21 | Estonia | 81 |
| 22 | Finland | 79.5 |
| 23 | Croatia | 78.1 |
| 24 | France | 77.8 |
| 25 | Romania | 72.7 |
| 26 | Italy | 71.8 |
| 27 | Greece | 62.4 |