evidence: More than six in ten (62.3.%) of persons aged 25-34 in Ireland had a third level qualification in 2022, which was the highest rate in the EU27 and over 20 percentage points higher than the EU27 average of 42.0% (see Table 4.4). [...] In Ireland, 59.1% of men aged 25-34 had a third level qualification in 2022, compared to 65.3% of women. Ireland had the second lowest gender differential between the proportions of men and women with third level education at 6.2 percentage points, while Germany had the lowest at 4.6.