IE · 2015 · tesem020
Early leavers from education and training (age group 18-24)
Ireland, 2015
In 2015, Ireland's early leavers from education and training (age group 18-24) increased by 1.5% compared to 2014, reaching 20.4.
Ireland accounts for 61.8% of the EU-27 total of 33.0.
Ireland ranks 21st out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 42.9% (from 35.7 in 2010).
Source: Eurostat dataset tesem020, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.