Youth unemployment rate, ages 15 to 24 (ILO modelled estimates)
Unemployed people aged 15 to 24 as a share of the labour force of that age, from the ILO modelled estimates. Values for the current and following years are ILO projections.
Highest in 2025
76.8%
Djibouti
Lowest in 2025
0.5%
Niger
World, 2025
12.4%
Official aggregate published by the source
Countries ranked for 2025
181
181 countries have a value for 2025, the latest period in the data.
Trend over time
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% of the labour force 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.
| Period | World | United States | China | India |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12.4% | 9.3% | 15.8% | 16.0% |
| 2024 | 12.3% | 8.9% | 15.0% | 15.7% |
| 2023 | 12.3% | 8.0% | 15.6% | 15.6% |
| 2022 | 12.9% | 8.1% | 14.7% | 17.7% |
| 2021 | 14.1% | 9.7% | 12.4% | 20.8% |
| 2020 | 15.4% | 14.9% | 12.7% | 24.7% |
| 2019 | 13.6% | 8.4% | 10.7% | 22.9% |
| 2018 | 14.0% | 8.6% | 9.7% | 26.0% |
| 2017 | 14.3% | 9.2% | 10.4% | 25.6% |
| 2016 | 14.3% | 10.4% | 10.6% | 25.2% |
Flags: f Projection . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- Among the 181 countries with a value for 2025, the highest is Djibouti (76.8%) and the lowest Niger (0.5%).
- Half of the countries are above 12.7% and half below.
- From 2024 to 2025 the value rose in 99 countries and fell in 82.
- The figure for the world was 12.4% in 2025, against 15.4% in 2020 (−3.0 percentage points).
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Source and dates
All countries in 2025 Every value is for 2025, so the countries are compared at the same point in time.
- 1 Djibouti 76.8%
- 2 South Africa 59.9%
- 3 Eswatini 54.3%
- 4 Libya 50.1%
- 5 Botswana 46.0%
- 6 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 41.9%
- 7 Republic of the Congo 40.5%
- 8 Jordan 38.9%
- 9 Tunisia 38.1%
- 10 Namibia 38.1%
- 11 Haiti 37.5%
- 12 French Polynesia 36.6%
- 13 Gabon 36.3%
- 14 Somalia, Fed. Rep. 34.2%
- 15 New Caledonia 33.1%
- 16 Syria 33.1%
- 17 Yemen 32.6%
- 18 Iraq 32.0%
- 19 Georgia 30.3%
- 20 Algeria 29.4%
- 21 North Macedonia 28.8%
- 22 Cabo Verde 28.4%
- 23 Bosnia and Herzegovina 28.2%
- 24 Angola 27.2%
- 25 Armenia 26.2%
- 26 Albania 25.6%
- 27 Suriname 25.4%
- 28 Uruguay 25.1%
- 29 Guyana 24.9%
- 30 Spain 24.7%
- 31 Lesotho 24.7%
- 32 Romania 24.5%
- 33 Montenegro 24.4%
- 34 Sweden 24.3%
- 35 US Virgin Islands 24.2%
- 36 Mauritania 22.9%
- 37 Iran 21.9%
- 38 Morocco 21.9%
- 39 Chile 21.6%
- 40 Finland 21.5%
- 41 Luxembourg 21.5%
- 42 Greece 21.4%
- 43 Serbia 20.9%
- 44 Nepal 20.6%
- 45 Italy 20.5%
- 46 Saint Lucia 20.3%
- 47 Portugal 20.2%
- 48 Costa Rica 19.9%
- 49 Panama 19.8%
- 50 Estonia 19.7%
- 51 Belize 19.3%
- 52 Bahamas 19.2%
- 53 Argentina 19.2%
- 54 France 18.9%
- 55 Sri Lanka 18.6%
- 56 Barbados 18.5%
- 57 Slovakia 18.4%
- 58 Egypt 18.3%
- 59 Brunei 18.2%
- 60 Belgium 17.8%
- 61 Colombia 17.7%
- 62 Mauritius 17.4%
- 63 Bhutan 17.1%
- 64 Afghanistan 16.8%
- 65 Croatia 16.5%
- 66 Rwanda 16.4%
- 67 Türkiye 16.0%
- 68 India 16.0%
- 69 China 15.8%
- 70 Equatorial Guinea 15.7%
- 71 Maldives 15.7%
- 72 Zimbabwe 15.5%
- 73 Kenya 15.2%
- 74 Fiji 15.2%
- 75 Kuwait 15.1%
- 76 United Kingdom 14.6%
- 77 Tajikistan 14.6%
- 78 New Zealand 14.4%
- 79 Hungary 14.2%
- 80 Puerto Rico (US) 14.0%
- 81 Brazil 14.0%
- 82 Oman 13.9%
- 83 Guam 13.8%
- 84 Canada 13.8%
- 85 Lithuania 13.8%
- 86 Norway 13.4%
- 87 Azerbaijan 13.1%
- 88 Indonesia 13.0%
- 89 Samoa 13.0%
- 90 Latvia 13.0%
- 91 Cyprus 12.7%
- 92 Dominican Republic 12.3%
- 93 Malaysia 12.0%
- 94 Denmark 11.7%
- 95 Mongolia 11.7%
- 96 Paraguay 11.7%
- 97 Mozambique 11.6%
- 98 Uzbekistan 11.4%
- 99 Vanuatu 11.3%
- 100 Austria 11.0%
- 101 Gambia 10.9%
- 102 Jamaica 10.8%
- 103 Poland 10.7%
- 104 Ireland 10.5%
- 105 Zambia 10.5%
- 106 Venezuela 10.4%
- 107 Eritrea 10.2%
- 108 Bulgaria 10.2%
- 109 Central African Republic 10.1%
- 110 Turkmenistan 10.0%
- 111 Saudi Arabia 10.0%
- 112 Myanmar 9.8%
- 113 Australia 9.6%
- 114 Pakistan 9.6%
- 115 Nicaragua 9.5%
- 116 Slovenia 9.5%
- 117 Peru 9.5%
- 118 Bangladesh 9.4%
- 119 United States 9.3%
- 120 Czechia 9.2%
- 121 Belarus 9.2%
- 122 Switzerland 9.0%
- 123 Hong Kong SAR, China 9.0%
- 124 Netherlands 8.8%
- 125 São Tomé and Príncipe 8.8%
- 126 Comoros 8.8%
- 127 Iceland 8.7%
- 128 Honduras 8.5%
- 129 Malta 8.4%
- 130 Kyrgyzstan 8.2%
- 131 Trinidad and Tobago 8.2%
- 132 Ecuador 8.2%
- 133 North Korea 7.9%
- 134 Democratic Republic of the Congo 7.8%
- 135 El Salvador 7.8%
- 136 Russia 7.6%
- 137 Philippines 7.0%
- 138 Guinea 7.0%
- 139 Malawi 6.9%
- 140 Germany 6.9%
- 141 Singapore 6.8%
- 142 Macao SAR, China 6.8%
- 143 South Korea 6.7%
- 144 Cameroon 6.5%
- 145 United Arab Emirates 6.5%
- 146 Burkina Faso 6.4%
- 147 Viet Nam 6.2%
- 148 Israel 6.0%
- 149 Tonga 6.0%
- 150 Ghana 5.8%
- 151 Mexico 5.7%
- 152 Bahrain 5.4%
- 153 Ethiopia 5.4%
- 154 Nigeria 5.3%
- 155 Madagascar 5.2%
- 156 Bolivia 5.0%
- 157 Guatemala 4.8%
- 158 Thailand 4.5%
- 159 Cuba 4.3%
- 160 Moldova 4.2%
- 161 Uganda 4.2%
- 162 Côte d'Ivoire 4.0%
- 163 Japan 3.9%
- 164 Mali 3.9%
- 165 Kazakhstan 3.8%
- 166 Papua New Guinea 3.8%
- 167 Sierra Leone 3.7%
- 168 Timor-Leste 3.7%
- 169 Senegal 3.6%
- 170 Togo 3.4%
- 171 Benin 2.9%
- 172 Guinea-Bissau 2.8%
- 173 Solomon Islands 2.8%
- 174 Laos 2.4%
- 175 Tanzania 2.4%
- 176 Liberia 2.3%
- 177 Burundi 1.7%
- 178 Chad 1.5%
- 179 Cambodia 0.7%
- 180 Qatar 0.6%
- 181 Niger 0.5%
- World 12.4%
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