This share has steadily decreased over the last 10 years (from 11.0% in 2015), bringing the EU closer to the target of reducing the rates of early school leavers to below 9.0% by 2030.
Latvia's level closely matches the EU average, just ducking below the 9% threshold with a figure of 8.8%. It has recorded a gradual improvement over the last decade. In 2015 the equivalent figure was 9.9%.
The EU countries with the lowest proportion of early leavers were Croatia, Gr...