Global Employment Trends for Youth 2026

Key Figures

  • 12.4%: Global youth unemployment rate in 2025.
  • 67 million: Young people aged 15–24 unemployed worldwide in 2025.
  • Youth unemployment increased by 0.1 percentage points from 2023.
  • 20%: Global youth NEET rate in 2025.
  • NEET rate rose from 19.7% in 2023.
  • 257 million: Young people were NEET worldwide in 2025.
  • 9 million: Additional young people entered NEET status since 2023.

Gender Gap

  • 27.4%: NEET rate among young women in 2025.
  • 13.1%: NEET rate among young men.
  • Young women’s NEET rate was more than twice that of young men.
  • More than two-thirds of NEET youth were women.
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