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Key Insights
- Upper secondary and tertiary education combined (ED3-8) maintains the highest employment rates, increasing from 92.7% in 2020 to 93.9% in 2024.
- Tertiary education (ED5-8) shows steady growth from 26.8% in 2020 to 29.0% in 2024, representing a 2.2 percentage point increase.
- Lower education levels (ED0-2) demonstrate a declining trend, dropping from 7.3% in 2020 to 6.1% in 2024.
- The employment rate gap between different education levels is substantial, with ED3-8 consistently outperforming other categories.
- All education levels show the importance of higher education for better employment prospects in Slovakia.
Legend Description
- ● ED0-2: Pre-primary, primary and lower secondary education (levels 0-2)
- ● ED3-8: Upper secondary, post-secondary non-tertiary and tertiary education (levels 3-8)
- ● ED5-8: Tertiary education (levels 5-8)
Population by educational attainment level, sex and age
SK (Slovakia)Data-Level: SK Source: Eurostat (edat_lfs_9903)
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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