Employment rate of women, ages 20 to 64
Employed women aged 20 to 64 as a share of all women of the same age, based on the EU Labour Force Survey.
34 countries have a value for 2025, the latest period in the data.
Trend over time
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% of women aged 20 to 64. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | European Union | Germany | France | Spain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71.3% | 77.7% | 72.6%d (definition differs (see metadata)) | 67.6%d (definition differs (see metadata)) |
| 2024 | 70.7% | 77.5% | 72.0%d (definition differs (see metadata)) | 66.5%d (definition differs (see metadata)) |
| 2023 | 70.2% | 77.4% | 71.6%d (definition differs (see metadata)) | 65.4%d (definition differs (see metadata)) |
| 2022 | 69.3% | 77.0% | 71.1%d (definition differs (see metadata)) | 63.7%d (definition differs (see metadata)) |
| 2021 | 67.6% | 75.9% | 70.1%d (definition differs (see metadata)) | 62.1%d (definition differs (see metadata)) |
| 2020 | 66.2% | 74.6%b (break in time series) | 69.2% | 60.0% |
| 2019 | 67.1% | 75.7% | 69.3% | 62.1% |
| 2018 | 66.3% | 75.0% | 68.7% | 61.0% |
| 2017 | 65.2% | 74.3% | 68.0% | 59.6% |
| 2016 | 64.1% | 73.6% | 67.6% | 58.1% |
| 2015 | 63.0% | 72.7% | 67.3% | 56.4% |
| 2014 | 62.0% | 72.2% | 66.9% | 54.8% |
| 2013 | 61.1% | 71.5% | 66.3% | 53.8% |
| 2012 | 61.0% | 70.7% | 65.9% | 54.6% |
| 2011 | 60.9% | 70.3%b (break in time series) | 65.5% | 56.1% |
| 2010 | 60.7% | 68.8%b (break in time series) | 65.7% | 56.3% |
| 2009 | 60.6% | 67.8% | 65.8% | 56.8% |
| 2008 | – | – | 66.4% | – |
| 2007 | – | – | 65.8% | – |
| 2006 | – | – | 64.9% | – |
| 2005 | – | – | 64.7% | – |
| 2004 | – | – | 64.5% | – |
| 2003 | – | – | 64.5% | – |
Flags: b break in time series; d definition differs (see metadata) . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- Among the 34 countries with a value for 2025, the highest is Iceland (83.6%) and the lowest Türkiye (39.1%).
- Half of the countries are above 75.7% and half below.
- From 2024 to 2025 the value rose in 24 countries and fell in 10.
- The figure for the European Union was 71.3% in 2025, against 66.2% in 2020 (+5.1 percentage points).
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Source and dates
All countries in 2025 Every value is for 2025, so the countries are compared at the same point in time.
- 1 Iceland 83.6%
- 2 Estonia 81.4%
- 3 Lithuania 80.3%
- 4 Sweden 79.8%
- 5 Netherlands 79.6%
- 6 Switzerland 79.2%
- 7 Germany 77.7%
- 8 Czechia 77.5%
- 9 Latvia 77.3%
- 10 Hungary 77.0%
- 11 Norway 77.0%
- 12 Portugal 77.0%
- 13 Denmark 76.7%
- 14 Malta 76.7%
- 15 Cyprus 76.3%
- 16 Finland 75.7%
- 17 Ireland 75.7%
- 18 Slovenia 75.7%
- 19 Austria 74.2%
- 20 Slovakia 73.7%
- 21 Bulgaria 73.2%
- 22 Poland 73.2%
- 23 France 72.6%d (definition differs (see metadata))
- 24 Croatia 71.8%
- 25 Luxembourg 70.2%
- 26 Belgium 69.3%
- 27 Spain 67.6%d (definition differs (see metadata))
- 28 Serbia 65.8%
- 29 Greece 62.3%
- 30 Romania 59.5%
- 31 Italy 58.0%
- 32 North Macedonia 54.4%
- 33 Bosnia and Herzegovina 45.2%
- 34 Türkiye 39.1%
- European Union 71.3%
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- Employment rate, ages 20 to 64Eurostat
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Grey: no value for 2025. Colour groups split countries into roughly equal numbers. Boundaries: Natural Earth.