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Key Insights from 2022-2024 Data:
- Education-Health Gradient: Clear positive correlation between education and health perception across all years. Tertiary educated individuals consistently report the highest levels of good/very good health (74.7% in 2024).
- Improvement Over Time: All education groups showed improvement from 2022 to 2024, with primary educated individuals increasing from 54.7% to 58.0% reporting good/very good health.
- Persistent Gaps: The gap between education levels remains substantial – tertiary educated individuals report 16.7 percentage points higher good/very good health than primary educated in 2024.
- Consistent Patterns: The ranking of education levels by health perception remained stable across all three years, indicating structural differences in health outcomes by education.
Legend: This chart shows the percentage of people reporting “Good” or “Very Good” health (VG_G) across different education levels in Germany from 2022 to 2024. Education levels: ED0-2 (Primary/Lower secondary), ED3_4 (Upper secondary/Post-secondary), ED5-8 (Tertiary). Higher percentages indicate better self-perceived health.
Self-perceived health by sex, age and educational attainment level
DE (Germany)
Data-Level: DE
Source: Eurostat - Self-perceived health by sex, age and educational attainment level (hlth_silc_02)
Note: VG_G represents the combined percentage of people reporting Good" or "Very Good" health. ED0-2: Primary and lower secondary education; ED3_4: Upper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary education; ED5-8: Tertiary education. Data for total population aged 16+."
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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