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Key Insights
The data reveals significant educational disparities between urban and rural areas in Germany:
- Urban areas consistently show the highest rates of higher education attainment, ranging from 32.6% in 2016 to 37.8% in 2024
- Rural areas have the lowest rates, ranging from 22.0% in 2016 to 27.2% in 2024
- Intermediate areas fall between urban and rural, with rates from 26.2% in 2016 to 32.2% in 2024
- All area types show consistent improvement over time, with urban areas increasing by 5.2 percentage points, intermediate areas by 6.0 points, and rural areas by 5.2 points
- The urban-rural gap remains substantial at approximately 10.6 percentage points in 2024, showing little change from the 10.6 points gap in 2016
Legend Description
Chart Type: Line Chart
Data: Percentage of total population aged 25-64 with higher education (ISCED levels 5-8)
Colors: #18baa8 (Urban), #45d1c4 (Intermediate), #0a9080 (Rural)
Years Displayed: 2016-2024
Categories: Urban (URB), Rural (RUR), Intermediate (INT)
Gender: Total population (both sexes)
Population aged 25-64 by educational attainment level, sex and other typologies
DE (Germany)Data-Level: DE 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