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European Union: Employment to population ratio
Employed people aged 15 and over as a percentage of the population aged 15 and over. ILO modelled estimate.
Data status: CurrentThe latest figures we have collected are for 2025. 2026 is not overdue until March 27, 2028, a generous allowance for a annual series until we have timed this source’s releases.
Official statisticSource figures as of October 8, 2026Sources & methods
- Sources
- World Bank
- Period covered
- 1991 – 2025
- Source figures as of
- October 8, 2026
- Geography
- European Union
- Sector
- Whole economy (not a single sector)
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable
- Transformations
- Views other than the level (changes, averages, volatility) are calculated by CK Economics from these figures
- Revisions
- Replaced with the source’s latest figures whenever it revises them.
- Data status
- Current
Key figures
CK estimate% of population aged 15+ · calculated by CK Economics from World Bank data
- Latest · 2025
- 53.9
- −0.3 pp vs a year earlier1
- 5-year change
- +1.4 pp
- since 20202
- 10-year change
- +2.8 pp
- since 20152
- Record high
- 54.2
- 20233
- Record low
- 48.9
- 19943
- Where the latest ranks
- 91st pct.
- Higher than 91% of the other 34 observations since 19914
- 1Latest observation against the observation one year earlier (for weekly data, the nearest within three days).
- 2Latest observation against the observation five and ten years earlier.
- 3Highest and lowest published observations across the full history shown.
- 4Share of the other published observations that are lower than the latest one, rounded down.
Methodology
Employed people aged 15 and over as a percentage of the population aged 15 and over. ILO modelled estimate. Compiled by the World Bank from national statistical offices and international agencies; some series (labour force participation) are ILO modelled estimates. Source series SL.EMP.TOTL.SP.ZS. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators (WDI 2026-10-08). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.EMP.TOTL.SP.ZS?locations=EUU
All data
35 observations, newest first · % of population aged 15+
| Period | Value | Change y/y |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53.9 | −0.29 pp |
| 2024 | 54.2 | −0.07 pp |
| 2023 | 54.2 | +0.31 pp |
| 2022 | 53.9 | +0.96 pp |
| 2021 | 53 | +0.5 pp |
| 2020 | 52.5 | −0.88 pp |
| 2019 | 53.4 | +0.4 pp |
| 2018 | 52.9 | +0.58 pp |
| 2017 | 52.4 | +0.73 pp |
| 2016 | 51.6 | +0.6 pp |
| 2015 | 51 | +0.47 pp |
| 2014 | 50.6 | +0.3 pp |
| 2013 | 50.3 | −0.26 pp |
| 2012 | 50.5 | −0.3 pp |
| 2011 | 50.8 | −0.06 pp |
| 2010 | 50.9 | −0.24 pp |
| 2009 | 51.1 | −1.32 pp |
| 2008 | 52.4 | +0.36 pp |
| 2007 | 52.1 | +0.75 pp |
| 2006 | 51.3 | +0.73 pp |
| 2005 | 50.6 | +0.4 pp |
| 2004 | 50.2 | −0.02 pp |
| 2003 | 50.2 | +0.12 pp |
| 2002 | 50.1 | −0.04 pp |