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Key Insights
The data reveals significant educational disparities between urban and rural areas in Austria:
- Urban areas consistently show the highest rates of higher education attainment, ranging from 42.2% to 44.2% between 2021-2024
- Rural areas have the lowest rates, ranging from 27.3% to 30.9% over the same period
- Intermediate areas fall between urban and rural, with rates from 36.2% to 38.2%
- All area types show improvement over time, with urban areas increasing by 2.0 percentage points, intermediate areas by 1.9 points, and rural areas by 3.6 points
- The rural-urban gap is narrowing slightly, from 14.9 percentage points in 2021 to 13.3 points in 2024
Legend Description
Chart Type: Grouped Bar Chart
Data: Percentage of population aged 25-64 with higher education (ISCED levels 5-8)
Colors: #18baa8 (Main), #45d1c4 (Secondary), #0a9080 (Tertiary)
Years Displayed: 2021-2024
Categories: Urban (URB), Rural (RUR), Intermediate (INT)
Gender: Total population (both sexes)
Population aged 25-64 by educational attainment level, sex and other typologies
AT (Austria)Data-Level: AT Source: Eurostat - Population aged 25-64 by educational attainment level, sex and other typologies (urt_edat_lfse4)
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Project manager:
Franziska Görmar
IfL - Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany
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This project is supported by the Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE Programme with co-financing from the European Regional Development Fund.
Find more information about the x-Inno Radar project on the Interreg CE projectwebsite.
x-Inno Radar is a project of: 
Creative Region Linz & Upper Austria Gmbh, 
The Regional Chamber of Commerce of the Karlovy Vary Region, 
Padova Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Crafts and Agriculture, 
Creative Industry Košice, n. o., 
BSC, Business support centre, ltd., Kranj, 
Regional Development Agency in Bielsko-Biała, 
Stebo Competence Centre Community Developmentm, 
Association of Cultural and Creative Industries Chemnitz and Region (Creative Chemnitz), Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography – Germany, Otelo Cooperative