In 2023, girls aged 16-19 in the EU showed higher levels of digital content creation skills than the general population, according to Eurostat data published April 24 to mark the International Day of Girls in ICT .
The majority of girls copied or moved files between folders, devices or on the cloud (78.6% of all girls aged 16-19), used word processing software (73.4%), created files integrating text, pictures, tables, charts, animations or sound (67.7%) or edited photos, video or audio files (60.8%) in the 3 months before the 2023 survey. Additionally, 47.3% of girls used a spreadsheet software and 22.4% used advanced features of this software to organise, analyse, structure or modify data. 1 in 10 girls (9.9%) wrote code in a programming language.
However, while 9.9% of girls coded, the share of boys coding was nearly double at 19.7%.
This gender gap was observed in 24 out of 26 EU countries with available data. The largest differences were recorded in Austria (26.5 percentage points ), Croatia (19.6 pp) and Belgium (18.2 pp).
In Lithuania and Greece, the share of girls who engaged in coding was slightly higher than that of boys, with a difference of 3.7 pp and 2.8 pp, respectively.
Sadly, Latvia still does not compare very well with most of its EU peers, as evidenced by the graphic below. 10% of youg people aged 16-19 had done some coding – 13% among males and 7% among females.
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