Men represent as many as 84 % employees with an ICT education
In 2022, 3.0 million people with ICT education were employed in the EU, which is 6.7 % more than in 2021 (2.8 million). Men accounted for 84.4 % (2.5 million) of ICT-educated employees, which is 7.1 % more than the year before (2.4 million in 2021), while women represented 15.6 % (463,100) employees, which is 4.4 % more than in 2021 (443,400).
As for EU members, Slovenia (93.0 %), Latvia (91.0 %), Poland (90.3 %), the Czech Republic (89.9 %), Belgium (88.7 %) and Slovakia (88 .5 %) the largest share of men in the total number of employees with an ICT education.
Regarding female employees with an ICT education, the highest shares were recorded in Bulgaria (31.5 %), Denmark (31.3 %), Cyprus (30.2 %) and Romania (29.9 %).
Most employees with an ICT background are young
In the EU in 2022, more than two thirds (67.8 %) of employees with an ICT education were between 15 and 34 years old, and 32.2 % were between 35 and 74 years old.
Young people between the ages of 15 and 34 represent the majority of ICT-educated working people in almost all EU member states, with the largest share in Slovakia (83.8 %), Romania (82.4 %), Croatia (79.3 %), Mortar (78.4 %). ), Hungary, Poland (both 76.7 %) and Portugal (76.1 %).
The highest percentages of 35-74-year-olds with an ICT education in the EU were in Finland (47.4 %), Ireland (43.7 %) and Bulgaria (40.4 %).