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Education in Italy [2026 Statistics And User Data]

Education in Italy statistics covering 7.1 million public school enrollment, 3.9% GDP spending below OECD average, PISA 2022 performance, 40% vocational enrollment rate, 37% university on-time completion, teacher salary decline, and 23.4% NEET rate among 25–29-year-olds.

Italian public school teachers earned 33% less than colleagues with equivalent university degrees in 2024, and their real salaries dropped 4.4% between 2015 and 2024 — a period when other OECD countries averaged a 14.6% increase. This article breaks down how Italy’s state education system is structured, how students perform in international assessments, what the […]