The proportion more than doubled in ten Member States: Poland (from 14.4% in 2002to 40.5% in 2013), Malta (from 9.3% to 26.0%), Slovakia (from 10.5% to 26.9%), Romania (from 9.1% to 22.8%), Latvia (from 17.3% to 40.7%), Portugal (from 13.0% to 29.2%), Luxembourg (from 23.6% to 52.5%), Hungary (from 14.4% to 31.9%), Lithuania (from 23.4% to 51.3%) and the Czech Republic (from 12.6% to 26.7%).
In 2013, the highest proportions of those aged 30 to 34 having completed tertiary education were observed in Ireland (52.6%), Luxembourg (52.5%), Lithuania (51.3%), Sweden (48.3%), Cyprus (47.8%) and the United Kingdom (47.6%), and the lowest in Italy (22.4%), Romania (22.8%), Croatia (25.9%) and Malta (26.0%).
Eleven Member States have already met or exceeded their 2020 national targets for this indicator (Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Finland and Sweden).