The EU statistics agency said on Thursday that 78% of health workers across the entire bloc were female and 22% were men.
A Eurostat spokeswoman told Delano on Friday that around 9,100 of the approximately 12,100 healthcare employees in Luxembourg are female. That means women represent roughly 75% of the sector’s workforce.
Men represented more or less 3,000 members, or 25%, of the sector’s manpower. However, the Eurostat representative flagged the figure for men as having “low reliability”, due to the small survey size, meaning the actual numbers may vary a bit.
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... the vast majority of the health workers in the EU are women (78%)
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Younger workforce
Eurostat also reported that Luxembourg’s health sector has one of the youngest workforces in the EU. Across the entire bloc, about one-third (36%) of healthcare employees are 50 and over, while in Luxembourg nearly half (47%) are under 35 years old.
Over one third (36%) of people in health occupations in the EU were 50 years old or over, followed by those aged 35 – 49 (35%) and those less than 34 (29%) #ClapForOurCarers #ClapForCarers #coronavirus
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The figures were from the fourth quarter of 2019.