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unsplash-logoAlex Kotliarskyi 

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.