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Youth not in employment, education or training (ILO modelled estimates)

Young people aged 15 to 24 who are not in employment, education or training, as a share of all people of that age, from the ILO modelled estimates. Values for the current and following years are ILO projections.

Unit: % of youth aged 15 to 24 Frequency: Annual Coverage: 186 countries and 1 group 2005 to 2025 Source: ILOSTAT (original data: International Labour Organization, ILO Modelled Estimates)
Highest in 2025 55.7% Afghanistan Lowest in 2025 3.1% Japan
World, 2025 20.0% Official aggregate published by the source
Countries ranked for 2025 181

181 countries have a value for 2025, the latest period in the data.

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% of youth aged 15 to 24. Source: ILO, ILOSTAT (ILO Modelled Estimates). Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years. Dashed lines are projections.

Youth not in employment, education or training (ILO modelled estimates) (% of youth aged 15 to 24), 2005 to 2027 – the last ten estimates and projections every five years; the CSV has every year
Period WorldUnited StatesChinaIndia
2025 20.0% 11.7% 11.2% 24.3%
2024 19.9% 11.6% 10.8% 24.2%
2023 19.7% 11.2% 10.9% 23.5%
2022 20.4% 11.2% 10.8% 25.8%
2021 21.4% 12.2% 10.8% 28.0%
2020 22.7% 13.9% 12.1% 30.7%
2019 21.3% 10.4% 10.7% 29.9%
2018 21.4% 10.9% 10.7% 30.0%
2017 21.4% 11.0% 11.6% 29.3%
2016 21.4% 12.0% 12.1% 28.8%

Flags: f Projection . A dash means no value was published.

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In short

  • Among the 181 countries with a value for 2025, the highest is Afghanistan (55.7%) and the lowest Japan (3.1%).
  • Half of the countries are above 17.5% and half below.
  • From 2024 to 2025 the value rose in 151 countries and fell in 30.
  • The figure for the world was 20.0% in 2025, against 22.7% in 2020 (−2.7 percentage points).

About this measure

Definition
Young people aged 15 to 24 who are not in employment, education or training, as a share of all people of that age, from the ILO modelled estimates. Values for the current and following years are ILO projections.
Population covered
Population aged 15 to 24
Unit
% of youth aged 15 to 24
Frequency
Annual
Changes are shown as
Percentage points (the difference between two rates)

Source and dates

Original producer
International Labour Organization, ILO Modelled Estimates
Distributed by
International Labour Organization, ILOSTAT
Dataset or series code
ILO,DF_EIP_2EET_SEX_RT,1.0 · dataset details · view at source
Selection
.A..SEX_T
Observation period
2005 to 2025
Provider update
Not stated by the provider
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Attribution
Source: ILO, ILOSTAT (ILO Modelled Estimates), original data: International Labour Organization, ILO Modelled Estimates

All countries in 2025 Every value is for 2025, so the countries are compared at the same point in time.

  1. 1 Afghanistan 55.7%
  2. 2 São Tomé and Príncipe 50.4%
  3. 3 Djibouti 50.0%
  4. 4 Yemen 46.0%
  5. 5 Somalia, Fed. Rep. 43.6%
  6. 6 Guyana 43.0%
  7. 7 Gambia 39.8%
  8. 8 Tajikistan 39.6%
  9. 9 Botswana 38.1%
  10. 10 Lesotho 38.1%
  11. 11 Chad 37.7%
  12. 12 Iraq 36.9%
  13. 13 Eswatini 36.7%
  14. 14 Mauritania 36.7%
  15. 15 Senegal 35.3%
  16. 16 Vanuatu 34.8%
  17. 17 South Africa 34.7%
  18. 18 Pakistan 34.4%
  19. 19 Syria 34.4%
  20. 20 Guinea 33.9%
  21. 21 Morocco 32.6%
  22. 22 Honduras 30.8%
  23. 23 Sierra Leone 30.8%
  24. 24 Namibia 30.7%
  25. 25 Nepal 30.7%
  26. 26 Jordan 30.6%
  27. 27 Libya 30.5%
  28. 28 Zimbabwe 30.1%
  29. 29 Democratic Republic of the Congo 30.1%
  30. 30 Samoa 30.1%
  31. 31 Central African Republic 29.9%
  32. 32 Republic of the Congo 29.4%
  33. 33 Gabon 29.4%
  34. 34 Zambia 29.1%
  35. 35 Timor-Leste 29.0%
  36. 36 Cabo Verde 28.2%
  37. 37 Papua New Guinea 27.7%
  38. 38 Ghana 27.5%
  39. 39 Mali 27.2%
  40. 40 Barbados 26.2%
  41. 41 Rwanda 26.0%
  42. 42 Iran 26.0%
  43. 43 Eritrea 25.8%
  44. 44 Tonga 25.8%
  45. 45 Dominican Republic 25.8%
  46. 46 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 25.7%
  47. 47 Oman 25.6%
  48. 48 Equatorial Guinea 25.1%
  49. 49 Burkina Faso 24.9%
  50. 50 Egypt 24.8%
  51. 51 Angola 24.8%
  52. 52 Belize 24.8%
  53. 53 Madagascar 24.4%
  54. 54 Maldives 24.3%
  55. 55 India 24.3%
  56. 56 New Caledonia 24.3%
  57. 57 Guatemala 24.1%
  58. 58 Peru 24.0%
  59. 59 Georgia 24.0%
  60. 60 Venezuela 23.8%
  61. 61 Albania 23.4%
  62. 62 Cameroon 23.2%
  63. 63 Colombia 23.2%
  64. 64 Türkiye 23.1%
  65. 65 Tunisia 22.9%
  66. 66 Saint Lucia 22.8%
  67. 67 Laos 22.6%
  68. 68 Nicaragua 21.9%
  69. 69 French Polynesia 21.9%
  70. 70 El Salvador 21.8%
  71. 71 Malawi 21.8%
  72. 72 Indonesia 21.5%
  73. 73 Haiti 21.4%
  74. 74 Comoros 21.3%
  75. 75 Fiji 20.7%
  76. 76 Puerto Rico (US) 20.5%
  77. 77 Armenia 20.4%
  78. 78 Bhutan 20.1%
  79. 79 Jamaica 20.0%
  80. 80 Algeria 19.7%
  81. 81 Kenya 19.5%
  82. 82 Kyrgyzstan 19.5%
  83. 83 Brazil 19.4%
  84. 84 Mozambique 19.3%
  85. 85 Côte d'Ivoire 19.1%
  86. 86 Suriname 19.0%
  87. 87 Ecuador 18.9%
  88. 88 North Macedonia 18.5%
  89. 89 Costa Rica 18.3%
  90. 90 Montenegro 17.6%
  91. 91 Mauritius 17.5%
  92. 92 Sri Lanka 17.4%
  93. 93 Paraguay 17.3%
  94. 94 Ethiopia 17.2%
  95. 95 Romania 17.1%
  96. 96 Turkmenistan 17.0%
  97. 97 Brunei 16.7%
  98. 98 US Virgin Islands 16.6%
  99. 99 Argentina 16.4%
  100. 100 Myanmar 16.3%
  101. 101 Bosnia and Herzegovina 16.2%
  102. 102 Saudi Arabia 16.2%
  103. 103 Niger 16.1%
  104. 104 Mexico 16.0%
  105. 105 Kuwait 15.6%
  106. 106 Bangladesh 15.6%
  107. 107 Israel 15.3%
  108. 108 Uruguay 15.1%
  109. 109 Bahamas 15.0%
  110. 110 Trinidad and Tobago 14.9%
  111. 111 Panama 14.8%
  112. 112 Lithuania 14.8%
  113. 113 Liberia 14.8%
  114. 114 Mongolia 14.8%
  115. 115 Benin 14.4%
  116. 116 United Kingdom 14.3%
  117. 117 Chile 13.8%
  118. 118 Uzbekistan 13.7%
  119. 119 Guinea-Bissau 13.6%
  120. 120 Nigeria 13.5%
  121. 121 Uganda 13.3%
  122. 122 Austria 13.1%
  123. 123 Togo 13.1%
  124. 124 Canada 13.0%
  125. 125 Thailand 12.9%
  126. 126 New Zealand 12.8%
  127. 127 Burundi 12.8%
  128. 128 Philippines 12.7%
  129. 129 Serbia 12.7%
  130. 130 France 12.6%
  131. 131 Guam 12.1%
  132. 132 Italy 12.1%
  133. 133 Russia 11.8%
  134. 134 United States 11.7%
  135. 135 Moldova 11.6%
  136. 136 Cuba 11.5%
  137. 137 China 11.2%
  138. 138 Tanzania 11.1%
  139. 139 South Korea 11.0%
  140. 140 Cambodia 11.0%
  141. 141 Viet Nam 10.9%
  142. 142 Cyprus 10.7%
  143. 143 Bulgaria 10.6%
  144. 144 Poland 10.5%
  145. 145 Greece 10.4%
  146. 146 Bahrain 10.3%
  147. 147 Estonia 10.3%
  148. 148 Malaysia 10.3%
  149. 149 Spain 10.2%
  150. 150 Hungary 10.0%
  151. 151 Luxembourg 9.4%
  152. 152 North Korea 9.4%
  153. 153 Latvia 9.0%
  154. 154 United Arab Emirates 9.0%
  155. 155 Slovakia 8.8%
  156. 156 Australia 8.6%
  157. 157 Solomon Islands 8.3%
  158. 158 Finland 8.2%
  159. 159 Croatia 8.1%
  160. 160 Portugal 7.8%
  161. 161 Switzerland 7.8%
  162. 162 Kazakhstan 7.8%
  163. 163 Bolivia 7.7%
  164. 164 Malta 7.7%
  165. 165 Germany 7.5%
  166. 166 Belgium 7.4%
  167. 167 Slovenia 7.1%
  168. 168 Denmark 6.9%
  169. 169 Belarus 6.2%
  170. 170 Singapore 6.0%
  171. 171 Norway 6.0%
  172. 172 Ireland 5.8%
  173. 173 Hong Kong SAR, China 5.7%
  174. 174 Qatar 5.6%
  175. 175 Sweden 5.6%
  176. 176 Czechia 4.7%
  177. 177 Iceland 4.0%
  178. 178 Macao SAR, China 3.7%
  179. 179 Netherlands 3.6%
  180. 180 Azerbaijan 3.3%
  181. 181 Japan 3.1%
  182. World 20.0%
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