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Published: 16 September 2026

Labour market position of young people aged 15–29 by educational attainment, EU27, 2019–2025, indexed values

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Labour market position of young people aged 15–29 by educational attainment, EU27, 2019–2025, indexed values

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Notes: Index for 2019 = 100. Each panel indexes the three attainment groups relative to their own 2019 value. ISCED 0–2 corresponds to less than primary, primary and lower secondary education; ISCED 3–4 corresponds to upper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary education; ISCED 5 and above corresponds to tertiary education, including short-cycle tertiary, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programmes. The employment rate is the percentage of employed people as a share of the population; the unemployment rate is the percentage of unemployed people as a share of the labour force; the hiring rate is the number of people who have started a job within the previous 12 months as a share of the population. Workers whose start date in a job is not recorded are counted in the population but not among recent hires, so hiring levels are slightly understated.

Source: Author, based on EU-LFS extractions; EU27 aggregate.

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