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  "study": {
    "slug": "stem-graduates-in-the-eu",
    "title": "Ireland and Finland Lead the EU in STEM Graduates, and Nowhere Do Women Outnumber Men",
    "url": "https://www.silverdatalab.com/studies/stem-graduates-in-the-eu"
  },
  "table": 2,
  "language": "en",
  "caption": "Female tertiary graduates in STEM fields per 1,000 women aged 20-29, 2024",
  "valueHeading": "graduates per 1,000",
  "selection": "Three highest and four lowest EU Member States, Cyprus and Hungary tying at 8.5, with the EU aggregate for reference.",
  "decimals": 1,
  "referenceLabel": "EU average",
  "note": "The male rate is 29.7 for the EU as a whole, and higher than the female rate in every Member State.",
  "derived": [
    "gap_to_reference"
  ],
  "flags": "source_flag carries the publisher's own status letters on the cell: p provisional, e estimated, b break in time series, d definition differs, u low reliability, i imputed",
  "source": {
    "publisher": "Eurostat",
    "dataset": "Graduates in tertiary education, in science, mathematics, computing, engineering, manufacturing and construction, by sex - per 1000 of population aged 20-29",
    "code": "educ_uoe_grad04",
    "filters": {
      "freq": "A",
      "unit": "P_THAB",
      "isced11": "ED5-8",
      "sex": "T, M, F",
      "time": "2024"
    },
    "extractedOn": "2026-09-17",
    "lastUpdated": "2026-07-17",
    "doi": "https://doi.org/10.2908/educ_uoe_grad04",
    "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/educ_uoe_grad04/default/table?lang=en"
  },
  "licence": {
    "analysis": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "statistics": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/about-us/policies/copyright"
  },
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    },
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    },
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    },
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      "name": "European Union",
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    },
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    },
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      "rank": 5,
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    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "name": "Malta",
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      "gap_to_reference": -8.4,
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    },
    {
      "rank": 7,
      "name": "Luxembourg",
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