Early school leavers by region, 2025
People aged 18 to 24 who have completed at most lower secondary education and are not in further education or training, as a share of all people of that age in the region.
226 places ranked for 2025. Highest: Şanlıurfa, Diyarbakır (46.3%). Lowest: Kentriki Makedonia (1.4%). The median is 9.1%.
Highest 10
- 1. Şanlıurfa, Diyarbakır 46.3%
- 2. Mayotte 38.9%
- 3. Ağrı, Kars, Iğdır, Ardahan 35.5%
- 4. Van, Muş, Bitlis, Hakkari 33.5%
- 5. Mardin, Batman, Şırnak, Siirt 31.8%
- 6. Guyane 25.5%
- 7. Sud-Est 25.1%
- 8. Tekirdağ, Edirne, Kırklareli 24.5%
- 9. Região Autónoma dos Açores 21.1%u (low reliability)
- 10. Manisa, Afyonkarahisar, Kütahya, Uşak 20.9%
Lowest 10
- 226. Kentriki Makedonia 1.4%u (low reliability)
- 225. Jadranska Hrvatska 2.0%u (low reliability)
- 224. Sostinės regionas 2.3%u (low reliability)
- 223. Sjeverna Hrvatska 2.3%u (low reliability)
- 222. Attiki 2.4%
- 221. Yugozapaden 2.6%u (low reliability)
- 220. Panonska Hrvatska 2.7%u (low reliability)
- 219. Region Sumadije i Zapadne Srbije 3.2%
- 218. Oslo og Viken 3.5%u (low reliability)
- 217. Budapest 3.5%u (low reliability)
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The chart shows the 40 highest values; the table lists all 226. Source: Eurostat.
In short
- Among the 226 regions with a value for 2025, the highest is Şanlıurfa, Diyarbakır (46.3%) and the lowest Kentriki Makedonia (1.4%).
- Half of the regions are above 9.1% and half below.
- From 2024 to 2025 the value rose in 96 regions and fell in 122.
- The figure for the European Union was 9.1% in 2025, against 10.0% in 2020 (−0.9 percentage points). The source marks a break in the series during this period, so part of the change may come from a change in method.
Full ranking
Places are ordered from the highest to the lowest value. Group medians on this site are the middle value of the members with data for the same year; they are not official aggregates.
How this ranking works
Every region is ranked on its value for 2025, the latest period that most regions have, so all values are for the same point in time. Regions without a value for 2025 are left out. Groups and aggregates such as the European Union are not ranked. Values are as published by Eurostat; the ranking is a plain ordering from the highest to the lowest value and says nothing about whether a high value is good or bad.
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