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More Europeans aged 30 to 34 complete tertiary education: Eurostat

Xinhua, April 27, 2016 Adjust font size:

The share of persons aged 30 to 34 in the European Union (EU) who have completed post-secondary education has increased from 23.6 percent in 2002 to 38.7 percent in 2015, according to data released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the EU, on Wednesday.

Moreover, this pattern was even more significant for women than for men.

Eurostat published the most recent data for the EU and its member states on achievement against the two Europe 2020 education headline targets.

The Europe 2020 strategy's target is that at least 40 percent of people in this age category in the EU should have completed post-secondary education by 2020.

Another target is to reduce the rates of early school leaving in the EU to below 10 percent by 2020.

In 2015, at least half of the population aged 30 to 34 had completed tertiary education in Lithuania, Cyprus, Ireland, Luxembourg, and Sweden.

At the opposite end of the scale, the lowest proportions were observed in Italy, Romania, Malta and Slovakia.

In addition, the share of early leavers from education and training (aged 18 to 24) has steadily decreased in the EU, from 17.0 percent in 2002 to 11.0 percent in 2015, and young women are less affected than young men.

Compared with 2006, the proportion of early leavers from education and training decreased in 2015 in all member states, except the Czech Republic, Romania and Slovakia, according to Eurostat. Endit