Netherlands in Numbers
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Early school leavers (18–24 without startkwalificatie)

7.4%change: 1y +0.4 pts · 5y +0.4 pts · 10y -0.8 ptsas of 2025A source confidence
Early school leavers — Netherlands
Early leavers from education, % of 18–24 (Eurostat)NetherlandsAustriaBelgiumGermanyDenmarkEU-27+3 more (hover)

Peer lines share one grey on purpose: hover for countries. The compared series can differ slightly from the Dutch definition above.

Position among the same 8 countries, year by year1 = highest value

Countries are ordered by value, highest first — rank 1 means the highest number, not “the best”. A year is ranked only when all 8 countries report it; missing years stay gaps. The EU average is not a country and is not ranked.

Source & method

SourceEurostat sdg_04_10
LicenceCC BY 4.0 (Eurostat)
Trend methodOLS over last 8 annual observations, 5% significance (MBW convention)
RevisionsNone recorded since 2026-07-07. Every retrieval is stored append-only; when the source restates history, the old and new values become comparable here.

Raw snapshot (JSON) · every observation keeps its retrieval timestamp and revision history in the public database.

Data table — Early school leavers (Netherlands)
PeriodValue
20257.4
20247.0
20236.2
20225.6
20215.1[b]
20207.0
20197.5[b]
20187.3
20177.1
20168.0
20158.2
20148.7[b]
20139.3[b]
20128.9
20119.2
201010.1
200911.3
200811.4
200711.9
200612.9[b]
200514.3[b]
200414.1
200314.3[b]
200215.3
200115.1
200015.4