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Youth unemployment

Ages 15–24. Always above the headline; Poland 28→11%.

percent

The file

Unemployment ages 15–24, % of the youth labour force, ILO, from 1991.

The indicator

SL.UEM.1524.ZS. Always higher than Unemployment — different base. It is not the share of all young people.

What the numbers show

Poland 28% → ~11%; US ~9%; Germany ~7%. The world did not fall the way Poland did. Pair with Labour force participation and Fertility.

Source
World Bank Open Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Last publisher update
2026-07-13
Retrieved
2026-09-15
Warehouse version
v21

Cite

Longseries, “Youth unemployment”. World Bank Open Data (SL.UEM.1524.ZS), 1991–2025, Brazil, China, Czechia, Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, United States, World. Retrieved 2026-09-15. CC BY 4.0. Warehouse v21. https://longseries.com/en/d/youth-unemployment/

No revisions in this copy yet — cron will append them when a publisher changes a past value.

Latest values

Sorted by the latest published value. The rest of the file is under the fold.

15 places — sorted by latest value
CountryYearValue
Spain202524.7
Sweden202524.3
Italy202520.5
France202518.9
India202516.0
China202515.8
United Kingdom202514.6
Brazil202514.0
The rest of the places (7)
Remaining 7 places
World202513.4
Poland202510.7
United States20259.3
Czechia20259.2
Netherlands20258.8
Germany20256.9
Japan20253.9

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