Youth unemployment rate, ages 15 to 24
Unemployed people aged 15 to 24 as a share of the labour force of the same age. Many young people are students outside the labour force, so this is not the share of all young people who are unemployed.
34 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: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | Germany | France | Spain |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7.1% | 19.8%d (definition differs (see metadata)) | 24.9%d (definition differs (see metadata)) |
| 2024 | 6.6% | 18.8%d (definition differs (see metadata)) | 26.5%d (definition differs (see metadata)) |
| 2023 | 5.9% | 17.3%d (definition differs (see metadata)) | 28.7%d (definition differs (see metadata)) |
| 2022 | 6.0% | 17.4%d (definition differs (see metadata)) | 29.7%d (definition differs (see metadata)) |
| 2021 | 7.0% | 18.9%d (definition differs (see metadata)) | 35.0%d (definition differs (see metadata)) |
| 2020 | 7.9%b (break in time series) | 21.6% | 38.3% |
| 2019 | 6.1% | 20.8% | 32.5% |
| 2018 | 6.6% | 22.1% | 34.3% |
| 2017 | 7.2% | 23.6% | 38.6% |
| 2016 | 7.5% | 26.0% | 44.4% |
| 2015 | 7.7% | 26.2% | 48.3% |
| 2014 | 8.2% | 25.7% | 53.2% |
| 2013 | 8.3% | 26.5% | 55.5% |
| 2012 | 8.6% | 25.9% | 52.9% |
| 2011 | 9.1%b (break in time series) | 24.2% | 46.2% |
| 2010 | 10.5%b (break in time series) | 24.7% | 41.5% |
| 2009 | 11.9% | 25.1% | 37.7% |
| 2008 | – | 20.2% | – |
| 2007 | – | 20.9% | – |
| 2006 | – | 23.5% | – |
| 2005 | – | 22.3% | – |
| 2004 | – | 21.7% | – |
| 2003 | – | 20.1% | – |
Flags: b break in time series; d definition differs (see metadata) . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- Among the 34 countries with a value for 2025, the highest is Bosnia and Herzegovina (32.5%) and the lowest Germany (7.1%).
- Half of the countries are above 15.1% and half below.
- From 2024 to 2025 the value rose in 23 countries and fell in 9.
- The figure for the European Union was 15.2% in 2025, against 17.6% in 2020 (−2.4 percentage points).
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All countries in 2025 Every value is for 2025, so the countries are compared at the same point in time.
- 1 Bosnia and Herzegovina 32.5%
- 2 North Macedonia 29.4%
- 3 Romania 26.1%
- 4 Spain 24.9%d (definition differs (see metadata))
- 5 Sweden 24.3%
- 6 Serbia 23.4%
- 7 Finland 21.8%
- 8 Estonia 20.7%
- 9 Italy 20.6%
- 10 France 19.8%d (definition differs (see metadata))
- 11 Portugal 19.5%
- 12 Luxembourg 19.4%
- 13 Greece 19.1%
- 14 Croatia 18.3%
- 15 Belgium 17.4%
- 16 Türkiye 15.4%
- 17 Slovakia 15.3%
- 18 Latvia 14.8%
- 19 Lithuania 14.1%
- 20 Norway 14.0%
- 21 Hungary 13.9%
- 22 Denmark 13.8%
- 23 Cyprus 13.5%
- 24 Bulgaria 13.1%
- 25 Poland 12.2%
- 26 Slovenia 12.1%
- 27 Ireland 11.8%
- 28 Austria 11.5%
- 29 Czechia 10.4%
- 30 Malta 9.6%
- 31 Iceland 9.5%
- 32 Netherlands 8.8%
- 33 Switzerland 8.8%
- 34 Germany 7.1%
- European Union 15.2%
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Grey: no value for 2025. Colour groups split countries into roughly equal numbers. Boundaries: Natural Earth.