YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE EU
Source: EuroStat (Feb. 2017 seasonally adjusted)
The statistic shows the seasonally adjusted youth unemployment rate in Europe (EU member states) as of February 2017. The source defines youth unemployment as unemployment of those younger than 25 years.
- Greece: 45.2%
- Spain: 41.5%
- Italy: 35.2%
- Cyprus: 30.4%
- Croatia: 28.8%
- Portugal: 25.4%
- France: 23.6%
- Romania: 20.4%
- Finland: 20.2%
- Slovakia 19.1%
- Belgium: 19.1%
- Luxembourg: 18.8%
- Sweden: 18.2%
- Latvia: 17.8%
- Bulgaria: 16.7%
- Lithuania: 15.7%
- Poland: 14.5%
- Slovenia: 14.5%
- Ireland: 14.5%
- Malta: 12.9%
- Denmark: 12.8%
- Estonia: 12.4%
- United Kingdom: 12.1%
- Hungary: 11.2%
- Austria: 10.7%
- Czech Republic: 10.3%
- Netherlands: 9.7%
- Germany: 6.6%
Note: There are 57.5 million persons in the EU 28 young population aged 15-24
High youth unemployment rates do reflect the difficulties faced by young people in finding jobs. However, this does not necessarily mean that the group of unemployed persons aged between 15 and 24 is large, as many young people are studying full-time and are therefore neither working nor looking for a job (so they are not part of the labour force which is used as the denominator for calculating the unemployment rate). For this reason, youth unemployment ratios are also calculated, according to a somewhat different concept: the unemployment ratio calculates the share of unemployed for the whole population
Total Population Unemployment Rate
- Greece: 23.1%
- Spain: 18.0%
- Cyprus: 12.9%
- Croatia: 11.6%
- Italy: 11.5%
- France: 10.0%
- Portugal: 10.0%
- Latvia: 9.3%
- Finland: 8.7%
- Slovakia: 8.6%
- Lithuania: 8.3%
- Slovenia: 7.8%
- Belgium: 7.0%
- Sweden: 6.8%
- Estonia: 6.8%
- Bulgaria: 6.7%
- Ireland: 6.6%
- Denmark: 6.4%
- Luxembourg: 6.1%
- Austria: 5.7%
- Romania: 5.4%
- Netherlands: 5.3%
- Poland: 5.3%
- Czech Republic: 4.8%
- United Kingdom: 4.7%
- Hungary: 4.3%
- Malta: 4.1%
- Germany: 3.9%
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