{"id":144,"date":"2025-07-31T04:45:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T04:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patragossips.gr\/?p=144"},"modified":"2025-09-04T13:12:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:12:38","slug":"greek-education-statistics-%f0%9f%87%ac%f0%9f%87%b7%f0%9f%93%9a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patragossips.gr\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Greek Education Statistics \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83d\udcda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here\u2019s a quick dive into Greece\u2019s education landscape, including insights for its farmer population, based on the latest data:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Literacy &amp; Schooling<\/strong>: Adult literacy was 94% in 2009, down from 96% in 2001. Average years of schooling rose from 1.3 in 1900 to 9.2 in 2010. By 2010, 66.4% of adults over 25 had at least lower secondary education.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tertiary Education<\/strong>: In 2020, 43.7% of 30\u201334-year-olds had tertiary degrees (women: 51%, men: 36.7%), surpassing the EU average (40.5%) but below the EU 2030 target (45%).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Early School Leaving<\/strong>: Only 4.1% of 18\u201324-year-olds left school early in 2019, one of the lowest rates in the EU (average: 10.2%).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Early Childhood<\/strong>: 68.8% of kids aged 3 to compulsory school age were in early education in 2019 (EU avg: 92.9%). Since 2021, pre-school from age 4 is mandatory, with 99.7% of 5-year-olds enrolled in 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Vocational Training<\/strong>: In 2022, 45.3% of medium-level students were in vocational programs, but only 35.4% of VET grads had work-based learning (EU avg: 64.5%). Apprenticeships grew 45.5% in 2023\/2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Farmers &amp; Education<\/strong>: Greece\u2019s 615,000 farmers (12.4% of the workforce) face an education gap\u2014only 0.7% of farm owners had full agricultural training in 2020. The urban-rural tertiary education gap was 20.9 points in 2020.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Young Farmers<\/strong>: Only 6% of farm managers were under 35 in 2020, despite programs like the EU\u2019s Young Farmers Aid encouraging youth in agriculture.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Challenges<\/strong>: Digital skills lag (32% of 16\u201319-year-olds had above-basic skills in 2019 vs. EU\u2019s 57%). Bullying affected 27% of secondary students in 2018. Migrant education remains limited, with only 400 of 10,600 school-aged migrant kids enrolled in 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Greece is making strides in education but needs to bridge gaps in rural and agricultural training to boost its farming sector. \ud83c\udf3e\ud83d\udcd6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sources: ELSTAT, OECD, Eurostat, UNESCO, EC Education Monitor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a quick dive into Greece\u2019s education landscape, including insights for its farmer population, based on the latest data: Greece is making strides in education but needs to bridge gaps in rural and agricultural training to boost its farming sector. \ud83c\udf3e\ud83d\udcd6 Sources: ELSTAT, OECD, Eurostat, UNESCO, EC Education Monitor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/patrasocial.gr\/@patragossips\/114946023843463160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patragossips.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patragossips.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patragossips.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patragossips.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patragossips.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patragossips.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/patragossips.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patragossips.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patragossips.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patragossips.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patragossips.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}