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Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 2021

Figures for 2021, as ILO published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 2021 covers 108 countries. Guyana is highest, at 44.774; Netherlands is lowest, at 3.079. The middle country reads 17.967. Against 2020, 90 values changed (28 up, 62 down), 18 countries joined, 14 left.

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Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training · Data for 2021

HighestGuyana

44.774

LowestNetherlands

3.079

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 2021, as published. ILO ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 108 countries · select a heading to sort

Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 2021: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1GuyanaGUYSouth America44.774
2AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia43.769
3NauruNRUMicronesia40.986
4Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia39.972
5Saint LuciaLCACaribbean39.203
6IraqIRQWestern Asia36.932
7BotswanaBWASouthern Africa35.168
8PakistanPAKSouthern Asia34.564
9EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa34.389
10South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa32.940
11JordanJORWestern Asia32.849
12KosovoXKXSouthern Europe32.045
13HondurasHNDCentral America31.916
14ZambiaZMBEastern Africa31.361
15MauritiusMUSEastern Africa31.211
16Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia31.171
17ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa30.431
18RwandaRWAEastern Africa29.042
19EgyptEGYNorthern Africa28.743
20AngolaAGOMiddle Africa28.126
21PalestinePSEWestern Asia28.062
22IndiaINDSouthern Asia28.006
23IranIRNSouthern Asia27.468
24Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean27.333
25ColombiaCOLSouth America27.264

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Guyana44.774
  2. 2Afghanistan43.769
  3. 3Nauru40.986
  4. 4Marshall Islands39.972
  5. 5Saint Lucia39.203

Lowest

  1. 108Netherlands3.079
  2. 107Sweden5.061
  3. 106Belarus5.476
  4. 105Cambodia6.188
  5. 104Slovenia6.597

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 17.967. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +18 / −14countries joined / left
  • 90values changed, of 90 in both
  • 28 · 62rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Cameroon+ Colombia+ Comoros+ Ecuador+ Ethiopia+ Ghana+ Guatemala+ Honduras+ Iraq+ Kenya+ Marshall Islands+ Nauru+ Eswatini+ Timor-Leste+ Tonga+ Tunisia+ Uganda+ Zimbabwe− Burundi− DR Congo− Curaçao− Kiribati− Mali− Myanmar− Malawi− New Caledonia− Palau− Puerto Rico− Seychelles− Tanzania− Venezuela− Vanuatu

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored
  • The position is ours

    ILO publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 108 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

International Labour Organization (ILO) (2021). Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/youth-neet/2021

0623 held

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07Questions

Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 2021: questions and answers

Which country has the highest youth not in education, employment or training (NEET) in Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 2021?

Guyana, at 44.774, of the 108 countries in the file.

What year does Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 2021 describe?

2021.

How many countries does Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 2021 cover?

108.

Where can I download Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 2021?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 2021 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 2024.

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