There are more than double workers with basic education in Portugal than in the EU. However, the country follows the opposite direction of the European Union – the employment rate has risen instead of descending.
Are more than 32% The Portuguese workers who completed only basic education. In the European Union, the average are 14,9%according to the latest data from.
And this with the level of qualification of the Portuguese population to rise: last year, more 96 thousand graduates They entered the job market, a number that has increased every year.
This is the first time that Portugal no longer has the largest share of the population in the labor market with lower qualifications – now, 34.6% of these Portuguese completed higher education. But these progress is not enough for the EU average.
In addition, Portugal is the ninth country of the European Union where the population is most superqualified. 16% of the Portuguese have more qualifications than necessary to perform their current work.
Still, this maladjustment is below the average block of countries: 21.3%, and neighbors Spanish They are also in worse sheets, with this sloping to reach 35.0%, the worst in the EU.
EMPLOYMENT RATE Increased in Portugal
Unlike the EU, however, there is more employment in Portugal. The employment rate accelerated, by 2024, to 78.5%compared to 78.0% of 2023 and 77.1% of 2022.
The employment rate in the European Union reached, in 2024, a new maximum of 75.8% and 197.6 million people between 20 and 64 years old, according to data released by Eurostat.
This is, according to the European statistical service, the highest employment rate since the beginning of the chronological series in 2009.
CAROLINA BASTOS PEREIRA, ZAP //
