Tertiary education enrolment (gross) in Euro area

Gross tertiary enrolment in the euro area was 81.9% in 2024.

Measure: Tertiary education enrolment (gross) Unit: % of the population in the five years after secondary school age Data: 1999 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Euro area is a group: Euro area; membership follows each source definition (World Bank EMU, ECB U2 changing composition). The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
Euro area, 2024 81.9% % of the population in the five years after secondary school age
Change from 2023 0percentage points 2023: 81.9%
World, 2024 43.6% Official aggregate

Tertiary education enrolment (gross) in Euro area over time

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% of the population in the five years after secondary school age. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Tertiary education enrolment (gross) (% of the population in the five years after secondary school age), 2001 to 2024
Period Euro areaWorld
2024 81.9% 43.6%
2023 81.9% 43.2%
2022 81.7% 42.0%
2021 80.0% 41.1%
2020 76.9% 39.7%
2019 76.0% 38.7%
2018 74.8% 37.9%
2017 73.6% 37.5%
2016 72.2% 37.1%
2015 71.4% 36.6%
2014 70.0% 35.6%
2013 68.0% 33.1%
2012 67.3% 32.3%
2011 66.6% 31.1%
2010 65.2% 29.6%
2009 63.7% 28.3%
2008 63.2% 27.4%
2007 63.2% 26.3%
2006 63.1% 25.7%
2005 62.4% 24.3%
2004 61.2% 23.6%
2003 59.5% 22.8%
2002 57.7% 21.6%
2001 56.2% 20.4%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is unchanged from 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was 70.0%, the figure has changed by +11.9 percentage points.
  • The figure for the world in 2024 was 43.6%.

Source and dates

Original producer
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
SE.TER.ENRR · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1999 to 2024 for Euro area
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: UNESCO Institute for Statistics