00:00Which European countries have the most graduates out of work?
00:07University degrees are supposed to give a head start in the job market,
00:11but across Europe that's far from guaranteed.
00:14The latest Eurostat data reveals just how much the value of a degree can depend on where you live.
00:21Graduates appear to enjoy a competitiveness boost in countries like Romania,
00:25the Czech Republic, Poland and Bulgaria, where only less than 1.5% of them are jobless.
00:32But things are very different in places like North Macedonia, Turkey and Bosnia-Herzegovina, where around 7% are unemployed.
00:41Life isn't much easier for fresh graduates in France and Spain either,
00:46where their unemployment rate is well over the EU average of 3.6%.
00:51Spain is an interesting case, it's one of the EU's fastest growing economies,
00:56but it also has the bloc's highest unemployment rate, 9.3%, among all people aged 25 to 54.
01:04That's even higher than non-members like Serbia and Turkey.
01:09The EU average across this age group is 5.4%.
01:13Italy and France are also above that mark.
01:17On the other end of the spectrum, the Czech Republic, Malta, Poland and the Netherlands
01:22all keep unemployment below 3%, while Germany is not too far behind at under 4%.
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