Youth Employment Rate in the European Union, Ages 20-29

Eurostat provides the employment rate for young adults aged 20 to 29 across the European Union. This indicator is calculated from the EU Labour Force Survey by dividing the number of employed persons in this age group by the total population of the same age. The dataset was last updated on April 17, 2026.

Use Cases

• Benchmark national youth employment performance based on the standardized EU-wide metric.
• Analyze trends in early-career labor market integration based on the age-specific employment rate.
• Model the relationship between economic cycles and youth employment based on survey-derived data.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the authoritative EU Labour Force Survey.
• The indicator uses a standardized calculation method across member states.
• The dataset is licensed under CC-BY-4.0 for open use.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

Eurostat

Collection Method

Calculated from the EU Labour Force Survey.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

European Union