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Youth Unemployment Rate, 2015

2015, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Youth Unemployment Rate, 2015 covers 187 countries. Djibouti is highest, at 72.492; Qatar is lowest, at 0.569. The middle country reads 14.238. Against 2014, 187 values changed (92 up, 95 down), the same countries are covered.

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Youth Unemployment Rate · Data for 2015

HighestDjibouti

72.492

LowestQatar

0.569

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 Unemployment Rate, 2015, 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 187 countries · select a heading to sort

Youth Unemployment Rate, 2015: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa72.492
2Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe65.239
3LibyaLBYNorthern Africa51.538
4South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa50.115
5GreeceGRCSouthern Europe49.731
=6EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa48.353
=6SpainESPSouthern Europe48.353
8North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe47.478
9Saint LuciaLCACaribbean46.991
10SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe43.230
11CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe42.310
12Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean42.029
13NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa41.224
14Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa41.214
15ItalyITASouthern Europe40.316
16AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe39.628
17MontenegroMNESouthern Europe37.722
18New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia37.587
19PalestinePSEWestern Asia37.215
20GabonGABMiddle Africa35.857
21GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia35.850
22French PolynesiaPYFPolynesia35.583
23AngolaAGOMiddle Africa35.122
24TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa34.967
25SyriaSYRWestern Asia34.807

02In 2015

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Djibouti72.492
  2. 2Bosnia and Herzegovina65.239
  3. 3Libya51.538
  4. 4South Africa50.115
  5. 5Greece49.731

Lowest

  1. 187Qatar0.569
  2. 186Niger0.704
  3. 185Cambodia0.744
  4. 184Solomon Islands1.297
  5. 183Chad1.426

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 14.238. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

What changed between 2014 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 187values changed, of 187 in both
  • 92 · 95rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. 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

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from ILO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2015.

  • 186 distinct values among 187

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 48.353. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 187 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) (2015). Youth Unemployment Rate, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/youth-unemployment/2015

0635 held

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07Questions

Youth Unemployment Rate, 2015: questions and answers

Which country has the highest youth unemployment rate in Youth Unemployment Rate, 2015?

Djibouti, at 72.492, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Youth Unemployment Rate, 2015 describe?

2015.

How many countries does Youth Unemployment Rate, 2015 cover?

187.

Where can I download Youth Unemployment Rate, 2015?

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

Is Youth Unemployment Rate, 2015 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Youth Unemployment Rate, 2025.

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