Digital Skills Gap Intelligence
Aggregate results from TalentPath's DigComp 3.0 assessments. No figure covers fewer than 10 people, and nothing is estimated. The people who take the assessment choose to, so the figures describe them, not a population.
The 2030 context
The Digital Decade Policy Programme commits the EU to two skills targets by 2030: at least 80% of adults with basic digital skills, and 20 million employed ICT specialists. Neither is on track.
Basic digital skills
60% vs 80% target
EU adults with at least basic digital skills (Eurostat, 2025), up from 56% in 2023. At that pace it would reach about 72% by 2030, not 80%.
ICT specialists
10.3M vs 20M target
Employed ICT specialists in the EU in 2024 (Eurostat) — about halfway, and 9.7 million short of the target.
SME digital intensity
73% vs 90% target
EU SMEs with at least basic digital intensity in 2024 (Eurostat) — 17 percentage points short of the 2030 target.
The divergence problem
Four member states already exceed the 80% target — the Netherlands (84%), Ireland (83%), Denmark and Finland (81%) — while Romania (32%) and Bulgaria (38%) sit at less than half of it (Eurostat, 2025). EU averages hide exactly the gaps policy needs to see.
What TalentPath adds, and what it does not
Eurostat's indicator comes from a survey in which people report what they have done. TalentPath's figures come from a scored test mapped to DigComp 3.0, taken online without supervision by people who chose to take it. The two measure different things and should not be compared directly; TalentPath's figures are not representative of any population.
Sources: State of the Digital Decade report (European Commission); Eurostat, Skills for the digital age (2025); European Labour Authority, Labour shortages and surpluses in Europe (2024).