Malta, Germany and the Netherlands are the three countries in the European Union (EU) where a higher percentage of recently graduated young people find employment.
This is indicated by the latest data provided by Eurostat, the EU's statistical office. The study analyzes, for each European country, what percentage of young people aged between 20 and 34 who have completed at least upper secondary education during the last three years have managed to find work.
In the case of Malta, the percentage is 94.5% of recently graduated young people. In Germany, it is 90.9%, and in the Netherlands, 90.4%. A country that does not belong to the EU, Iceland, tops the global ranking with a ratio of 94.8%.
The European Union average stands at 80.2%.
Spain ranks fifth from the bottom with a ratio of 71.9%. In a worse situation are Cyprus (71.5%), Croatia (65.9%), and with significantly lower percentages Italy (55.2%) and Greece (52%).
The Eurostat study also offers data on the evolution of this ratio between 2006 and 2017 for the EU as a whole and for each of the European countries. In the EU, the employment ratio of young graduates has been improving for the last four consecutive years, going from 75.4% in 2013 to 80.2% in 2017.
In the case of Spain, the figures have also been improving since the lowest point in 2013, when the ratio stood at 59.9%. Since then, it has been improving year after year until reaching 71.9% last year.
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