A Euronews Next survey of Eurostat data of education levels across European countries shows that 40.8% of Maltese have a low education level.
‘Educational levels are defined as low (less than high school), middle (high school), or high (university studies).’
This makes low education pre-primary, primary and lower secondary education (ISCED levels 0–2), which Eurostat bases off the International standard classification of education (ISCED).
Turkey had the highest share of the population with low education by far, having 61.8% of people with less than upper secondary education attainment.
Malta joined countries like Portugal, Italy and Spain in having education levels below 40%.
Meanwhile, 28.1% of respondents from Malta had a high education level, with 13.8 having medium (vocational) levels of education, followed by 17.3% having medium (general) levels.
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