In 2025, greater than 81.6 million individuals within the EU aged 15 to 74 had been employed in science and technology, a 1.8% improve from 2024 (akin to 1.5 million of individuals) and an increase of 25.3% during the last decade.
Of the 81.6 million individuals, 52.5% had been ladies (42.8 million), working primarily in service actions. Their share elevated by 2.3% in contrast with 2024 and by a formidable 27.9% in contrast with 2015, akin to an absolute improve of greater than 9.3 million ladies in science and technology occupations prior to now 10 years.
Science and technology occupations are these, during which the principle duties require a excessive stage of skilled information or technical information and expertise in 1 or extra fields of bodily and life sciences, or social sciences and humanities.
Across the EU areas at stage 1 of the Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS 1), the very best shares of ladies employed in science and technology in 2025 had been noticed in Latvia, with 62.4% (a single area at this stage of element), adopted by the Hungarian area of Great Plain and North, with 61.1%, and Estonia (additionally a single area at this stage), with 60.5%.
At the opposite finish of the size, the bottom shares had been recorded within the French area of Corsica (42.7%), Malta (46.0%) and the Centre area in Italy (47.2%).
Source dataset: hrst_st_rsex
Women underrepresented as scientists and engineers
Scientists and engineers are an vital subgroup of all individuals employed in science and technology within the EU, representing virtually 1 / 4 (24.8%).
Germany employed the most important share throughout the EU international locations, with 4.2 million scientists and engineers.
Although ladies made up greater than half of the individuals employed in science and technology, they remained underrepresented amongst scientists and engineers, accounting for 40.8% of their whole in 2025. This share grew solely 0.5 proportion factors during the last 10 years, whereas absolutely the quantity of ladies working as scientists and engineers elevated by 54.4% in that interval, from 5.3 million in 2015 to eight.2 million in 2025.