The graph illustrates the percentages of employed and educated people in European countries for the year 2015.
Overall, Norway had the highest employment rates, the highest proportion of educated people, and the highest annual income.
Greece had the lowest number of working people while Portugal had the lowest percentage of people with a higher education degree and Bulgaria showed the least income per year.
Norway came first as it had the highest percentage of working people between the ages of 16 to the age of 64 with 74.8% consequently having the highest proportion of people holding an academic degree with 43.2 of its adult population which resulted in it being the country with the highest average income per year
with 41.483 Euros. Although both Austria and the United Kingdom had high worker percentages of 71.1% and 72.7% respectively, there was around 20000 Euros difference in the annual income between them and Norway. On the other hand, Greece had the lowest rate of employment among the eight countries with only 50.8%. However, it was not the lowest country in terms of income. Bulgaria had the lowest income per person per year even though it had 12.1% higher employment rates compared with Greece.
