Labour force with an ICT education
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3.6 million
European Union · 2025
Labour force with an ICT education in the European Union stood at 3.6 million in 2025 (Eurostat).
- Publisher
- Eurostat
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Report
- ICT education
- Locator
- General perspectives about the labour force for persons with an ICT education
- Retrieved
- 15 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
In 2016, the EU labour force (or the total number of economically active people) that were in possession of an ICT education numbered over 2.5 million people; by 2025, this number rose to 3.6 million (see Figure 1).
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- APA
- Statistical Office of the European Union. (2025). ICT education. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=ICT_education_-_a_statistical_overview. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XCJ329G1VRE4150CPYJ
- MLA
- Statistical Office of the European Union. "ICT education." 2025, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=ICT_education_-_a_statistical_overview. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XCJ329G1VRE4150CPYJ.
- Chicago
- Statistical Office of the European Union. "ICT education." 2025. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=ICT_education_-_a_statistical_overview. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XCJ329G1VRE4150CPYJ.
- BibTeX
- @misc{eurostat2025labour50cpyj, author = {{Statistical Office of the European Union}}, title = {ICT education}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XCJ329G1VRE4150CPYJ}, note = {Original source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=ICT\_education\_-\_a\_statistical\_overview. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- Statistical Office of the European Union · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- ICT education
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- General perspectives about the labour force for persons with an ICT education
- Retrieved
- 15 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Last revision
- 15 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_01M2KJ7XCJ329G1VRE4150CPYJ