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Key Insights
The data reveals significant educational progress and persistent disparities between urban and rural areas in Italy:
- Urban areas consistently show the highest rates of higher education attainment, increasing from 14.4% in 2010 to 23.5% in 2024
- Rural areas have the lowest rates but show steady improvement, rising from 13.0% in 2010 to 17.9% in 2024
- Intermediate areas fall between urban and rural, growing from 14.4% in 2010 to 21.7% in 2024
- All area types show consistent upward trends over the 14-year period, with urban areas gaining 9.1 percentage points, intermediate areas 7.3 points, and rural areas 4.9 points
- The urban-rural gap persists but varies, starting at 1.4 percentage points in 2010 and widening to 5.6 points by 2024
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: 2010-2024
Categories: Urban (URB), Rural (RUR), Intermediate (INT)
Gender: Total population (both sexes)
Population aged 25-64 by educational attainment level, sex and other typologies
IT (Italy)Data-Level: IT 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