Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training

Youth not in education, employment or training (%)·Higher is worse — rank 1 is worst affected·Published by International Labour Organization (ILO)

We hold 23 editions of this indicator, from 2002 to 2024 — 2,088 rows in total, and 97 countries in the newest.

23 reference years (2002–2024), covering 50 to 120 countries, produced by the ILO and pulled through the World Bank’s indicator API (SL.UEM.NEET.ZS). The share of 15-to-24-year-olds who are neither in work nor in education or training. It catches what youth unemployment misses: a young person who has left school and stopped looking for work does not appear in an unemployment rate at all. ⚠ MEASURED, NOT MODELLED, unlike most ILO series here — it comes from the Labour Force Statistics database rather than the modelled estimates, so only countries that ran a labour force survey appear. The country set therefore changes from year to year and a missing country means a missing survey, not a missing problem. ⚠ For that reason it uses a 50-country floor rather than the shared 80: 28 thin years are dropped, and the 23 kept run from 2002. ⚠ The ILO ranks nobody, so no rank is stored; the POSITION on the statistics page is derived here by ordering the score and labelled as ours.