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Indicator field guide / SL.UEM.NEET.ZS

Youth outside work and education

The share of youth not in education, employment or training (also known as “the NEET rate”) conveys the number of young persons not in education, employment or training as a percentage of the total youth population. Youth not in education are those who were neither enrolled in school nor in a formal training program (e.g. vocational training). For the purposes of this indicator, youth is defined as all persons between the ages of 15 and 24 (inclusive).

Unit: % of youth. Original provider definition and metadata ↗

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Covered economies, 2023

EconomyValue
Albania23.4%
Angola21.4%
Antigua and Barbuda15.8%
Argentina15.0%
Armenia20.2%
Australia7.9%
Austria13.1%
Bangladesh14.3%
Belgium6.8%
Bhutan19.8%
Bolivia9.6%
Bosnia and Herzegovina16.0%
Botswana37.6%
Brazil20.6%
Brunei Darussalam16.5%
Bulgaria11.2%
Burkina Faso34.2%
Cambodia6.3%
Canada11.7%
Chile15.3%
Colombia23.3%
Costa Rica20.9%
Croatia9.9%
Cyprus13.6%
Czechia7.0%
Denmark7.2%
Dominican Republic25.7%
Ecuador18.6%
Egypt, Arab Rep.24.6%
El Salvador21.5%
Equatorial Guinea17.5%
Estonia9.6%
Eswatini36.5%
Finland8.8%
France11.8%
Gambia, The39.8%
Georgia18.0%
Germany7.7%
Ghana21.9%
Greece12.5%
Grenada20.1%
Guatemala23.8%
Honduras30.4%
Hong Kong SAR, China5.9%
Hungary9.8%
Iceland5.8%
India23.5%
Indonesia21.6%
Iran, Islamic Rep.25.6%
Ireland5.1%
Israel14.9%
Italy12.7%
Jamaica19.7%
Jordan30.2%
Kiribati35.4%
Kosovo33.3%
Kyrgyz Republic19.3%
Latvia5.7%
Lithuania13.5%
Luxembourg8.2%
Mali31.3%
Malta7.9%
Mauritius17.4%
Mexico15.9%
Moldova13.3%
Mongolia14.6%
Montenegro17.6%
Namibia31.6%
Netherlands3.7%
New Zealand11.7%
Nigeria11.7%
North Macedonia19.1%
Norway5.7%
Palau11.3%
Panama15.1%
Philippines3.0%
Poland10.2%
Portugal8.5%
Romania16.5%
Russian Federation8.7%
Rwanda27.9%
Saudi Arabia17.0%
Senegal30.6%
Serbia12.4%
Seychelles20.4%
Singapore6.8%
Slovak Republic9.2%
Slovenia7.3%
South Africa34.0%
Spain9.3%
Sri Lanka18.2%
St. Lucia30.9%
Sweden5.1%
Switzerland6.6%
Thailand12.5%
Tonga25.6%
Trinidad and Tobago14.4%
Tunisia22.6%
Turkiye22.5%
United Arab Emirates8.9%
United Kingdom12.8%
United States11.2%
Uruguay14.9%
Viet Nam10.8%
Zambia28.9%
Zimbabwe30.0%

Snapshot retrieval: 2026-11-01. Coverage is limited to the atlas comparison set. Download and limitations.