More than eight in ten recent graduates in the grand duchy had a job in 2018, placing Luxembourg in the upper third of roughly 300 regions analysed by Eurostat, the EU statistics agency.
Eurostat defined a “recent graduate” as someone “aged 20-34 who had successfully obtained at least an upper secondary level of education in the past 1-3 years and are not in further education”.
The three regions with the highest rates in 2018:
- Strední Morava (Central Moravia in the Czech Republic): 96.8%
- Niederbayern (Lower Bavaria): 96.1%
- Jihozápad (southwestern Czech Republic): 94.3%
European regions with higher recent graduate employment rates than Luxembourg:
- Stockholm: 86.1%
- Bourgogne (Burgundy, France): 92.3%
- Iceland: 91.8%
- Stuttgart: 90.8%
- Malta: 90.4%
- Trier: 89.7%
Luxembourg: 86%
Regions with lower recent graduate employment rates than Luxembourg:
- EU28 average: 76.4%
- Belgian Province of Luxembourg: 76.2%
- Île de France (Paris region): 75.5%
- Inner London: 74.6%
- Lorraine (neighbouring French region): 62.1%
- Brussels Capital Region: 60.3%
The three regions with the lowest rates were:
- Calabria (southwestern Italy): 27.5%
- Sicilia (Italian region): 24.5%
- Dytiki Makedonia (Western Macedonia): 24.3%
The figures were released by Eurostat on 15 November, ahead of International Students Day on Sunday.
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