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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8483

17 June 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/education
71% of EU 18-year-olds still in education

Luxembourg, 16/06/2003 (Agence Europe) - According to a report entitled "Education in Europe: Key Statistics 2000/01", just published by Eurostat, 71% of 18-year-olds living in the EU are still in education. For the period in question (2000-2001), the highest proportions of young people remaining in education were observed in Sweden (95%), Finland (89%), and Belgium (85%); the lowest in the United Kingdom (55%) and Portugal (66%). For the accession countries, the percentages ranged between...

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