Youth Unemployment Rate 2023

Report year 2023·Data year 2023

Unemployment, ages 15-24 (% of youth labour force)·Higher is worse — rank 1 is worst affected·Published by International Labour Organization (ILO)

35 reference years (1991–2025), covering 182 to 187 countries, produced by the ILO and pulled through the World Bank’s indicator API (SL.UEM.1524.ZS). The share of 15-to-24-year-olds in the labour force who are without work but available for it and looking. The overall unemployment rate is already on the site; the youth rate runs two to three times higher almost everywhere and moves differently, which is why it says something the headline cannot. ⚠ It shares the headline rate’s blind spot — a young person who has stopped looking is not counted here at all, which is what the NEET share measures instead. ⚠ It also has a denominator trap: it is a share of the youth LABOUR FORCE, not of all young people, so a country that keeps most of its teenagers in education can post a high rate off a small base. ⚠ MODELLED, not measured. ⚠ 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.

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