Country pillars
The ESI measures countries’ “distance to the ideal” performance. This ideal performance is chosen as the highest achieved by any country over a period of 7 years. The ideal performance is scaled to be 100 and the scores of all countries are then computed and compared to that. Basis of the ESI are 15 individual indicators from various international datasets. The scores are calculated across countries at the indicators’ level. The scores are then averaged at the various layers and finally the Index score is formed. To illustrate, an Index (or pillar, sub-pillar etc.) score of 65 suggests that the country has reached 65% of the ideal performance. Thus, there is still 35% (100-65) room for improvement. A score of 100 corresponds to achieving the ‘frontier’, that is an aspirational target performance for that indicator. A score of 0 corresponds to a lowest-case performance. This page shows specific information on the scores achieved by the chosen country across pillars, sub-pillars and indicators. Below, you can find a short commentary on country’s skills system performance over time and the ESI 2024 scores.
Greece: 2024 scores and progress over time
Greece ranked 29th of 31 countries in the European Skills Index in 2024, with a total score of 28.1. At the pillar level, it ranked 28th in Skills Development (score: 35.2), 27th in Skills Activation (score: 37.4) and 30th in Skills Matching (score: 20).
The highest-ranking indicators of Greece, in comparison with other countries, are Pre-primary pupil-to-teacher ratio (9.6, rank 5th) and Low-wage workers (ISCED 5-8) (4.71%, rank 6th). On the other hand, its weakest indicators are Over-qualification rate (tertiary graduates) (40.2%, rank 31st) and Recent graduates in employment (66.1%, rank 30th).
Over the last seven years the overall rank of Greece has remained unchanged from 29th place in 2017. In that time, its overall score has increased from 18.7 to 28.1. The indicators that have improved the most (in terms of their normalised scores, and accounting for indicator directions) are Underemployed part-time workers (5.1% in 2017 to 3.3% in 2024), and Early leavers from training (4.9% in 2017 to 2.7% in 2024). The indicators that have shown the greatest declines are Reading, maths & science scores (aged 15) (458.5 in 2017 to 436.5 in 2024), and Activity rate (aged 20-24) (47.4% in 2017 to 46.7% in 2024).
Note that these figures may refer to imputed data points.