Employment rates by sex, age and NUTS 2 regions (%) - lfst_r_lfe2emprt

Data - Eurostat

Info

Last observation: 2025 (N = 15520)

First observation: 1999 (N = 12999)

Last data update: 14 aoû 2026, 21:07. Last compile: 18 aoû 2026, 01:56

Structure

freq

unit

sex

age

geo

15 years or over

lfst_r_lfe2emprt |>
  filter(unit == "PC",
         sex == "T",
         age == "Y_GE15",
         nchar(geo) == 4,
         time == "2018") |>
  right_join(europe_NUTS2, by = "geo") |>
  filter(long >= -13.5, lat >= 33) |>
  ggplot(aes(x = long, y = lat, group = group, fill = values/100)) +
  geom_polygon() + coord_map() +
  scale_fill_viridis_c(na.value = "white",
                       labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1),
                       breaks = 0.01*seq(20, 100, 5),
                       values = c(0, 0.1, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 1)) +
  theme_void() + theme(legend.position = c(0.15, 0.85)) +
  labs(fill = "Employment 15+ (%)")

25 years or over

lfst_r_lfe2emprt |>
  filter(unit == "PC",
         sex == "T",
         age == "Y_GE25",
         nchar(geo) == 4,
         time == "2018") |>
  right_join(europe_NUTS2, by = "geo") |>
  filter(long >= -13.5, lat >= 33) |>
  ggplot(aes(x = long, y = lat, group = group, fill = values/100)) +
  geom_polygon() + coord_map() +
  scale_fill_viridis_c(na.value = "white",
                       labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1),
                       breaks = 0.01*seq(20, 100, 5),
                       values = c(0, 0.1, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 1)) +
  theme_void() + theme(legend.position = c(0.15, 0.85)) +
  labs(fill = "Employment 25+ (%)")

Y15-64

lfst_r_lfe2emprt |>
  filter(unit == "PC",
         sex == "T",
         age == "Y15-64",
         nchar(geo) == 4,
         time == "2018") |>
  right_join(europe_NUTS2, by = "geo") |>
  filter(long >= -13.5, lat >= 33) |>
  ggplot(aes(x = long, y = lat, group = group, fill = values/100)) +
  geom_polygon() + coord_map() +
  scale_fill_viridis_c(na.value = "white",
                       labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1),
                       breaks = 0.01*seq(20, 100, 10),
                       values = c(0, 0.1, 0.3, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1)) +
  theme_void() + theme(legend.position = c(0.15, 0.85)) +
  labs(fill = "Employment 15-64 (%)")

Y25-64

lfst_r_lfe2emprt |>
  filter(unit == "PC",
         sex == "T",
         age == "Y25-64",
         nchar(geo) == 4,
         time == "2018") |>
  right_join(europe_NUTS2, by = "geo") |>
  filter(long >= -13.5, lat >= 33) |>
  ggplot(aes(x = long, y = lat, group = group, fill = values/100)) +
  geom_polygon() + coord_map() +
  scale_fill_viridis_c(na.value = "white",
                       labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1),
                       breaks = 0.01*seq(20, 100, 10),
                       values = c(0, 0.1, 0.3, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1)) +
  theme_void() + theme(legend.position = c(0.15, 0.85)) +
  labs(fill = "Employment 25-64 (%)")