Poland
Youth unemployment
27.5→10.7
- Change
- -16.8 pts
- Years
- 1991–2025
Poland: 27.5 (1991) → 10.7 (2025). Difference -16.8 pts. Highest 43.3 in 2002; lowest 9.8 in 2019.
A pair of series
Youth jobless and NEET
Youth unemployment and the NEET rate. Labour force versus everyone 15–29.
Youth unemployment is among those in the labour force. NEET rate also counts people out of school.
Youth unemployment
Ages 15–24. Always above the headline; Poland 28→11%.
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.
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. https://longseries.com/en/d/youth-unemployment/
Latest values
Sorted by the latest published value. The rest of the file is under the fold.
| Country | Year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 2025 | 24.7 |
| Sweden | 2025 | 24.3 |
| Italy | 2025 | 20.5 |
| France | 2025 | 18.9 |
| India | 2025 | 16.0 |
| China | 2025 | 15.8 |
| United Kingdom | 2025 | 14.6 |
| Brazil | 2025 | 14.0 |
The rest of the places (7)
| World | 2025 | 13.4 |
| Poland | 2025 | 10.7 |
| United States | 2025 | 9.3 |
| Czechia | 2025 | 9.2 |
| Netherlands | 2025 | 8.8 |
| Germany | 2025 | 6.9 |
| Japan | 2025 | 3.9 |
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| Year | Country | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Poland | 10.7 |
| 2024 | Poland | 10.7 |
| 2023 | Poland | 11.2 |
| 2022 | Poland | 10.6 |
| 2021 | Poland | 11.8 |
| 2020 | Poland | 10.8 |
| 2019 | Poland | 9.8 |
| 2018 | Poland | 11.7 |
| 2017 | Poland | 14.8 |
| 2016 | Poland | 17.6 |
| 2015 | Poland | 20.7 |
| 2014 | Poland | 23.7 |
| 2013 | Poland | 27.2 |
| 2012 | Poland | 26.3 |
| 2011 | Poland | 25.5 |
| 2010 | Poland | 23.6 |
| 2009 | Poland | 20.5 |
| 2008 | Poland | 17.1 |
| 2007 | Poland | 21.4 |
| 2006 | Poland | 29.5 |
| 2005 | Poland | 36.9 |
| 2004 | Poland | 40.0 |
| 2003 | Poland | 42.7 |
| 2002 | Poland | 43.3 |
| 2001 | Poland | 40.4 |
| 2000 | Poland | 32.9 |
| 1999 | Poland | 28.8 |
| 1998 | Poland | 20.9 |
| 1997 | Poland | 22.4 |
| 1996 | Poland | 28.1 |
| 1995 | Poland | 30.7 |
| 1994 | Poland | 32.0 |
| 1993 | Poland | 29.7 |
| 1992 | Poland | 27.5 |
| 1991 | Poland | 27.5 |
NEET rate
Share of 15–29-year-olds not in work or training. Eurostat. Not the same as [youth-unemployment].
The file
Young people neither in employment nor in education or training, 15–29. Eurostat.
The indicator
edat_lfse_20, T, Y15-29, NEMP, NO_FE_NO_NFE, PC.
What the numbers show
NEET includes people out of school. Youth unemployment is only the labour force. Pair them.
Longseries, “NEET rate”. Eurostat (edat_lfse_20), 2000–2025, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, European Union, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Türkiye. Retrieved 2026-09-15. Eurostat reuse policy. https://longseries.com/en/d/eu-neet/
Latest values
Sorted by the latest published value. The rest of the file is under the fold.
| Country | Year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Türkiye | 2025 | 26.3 |
| Romania | 2025 | 19.2 |
| Bulgaria | 2025 | 13.8 |
| Greece | 2025 | 13.6 |
| Italy | 2025 | 13.3 |
| France | 2025 | 12.9 |
| Lithuania | 2025 | 12.4 |
| Spain | 2025 | 11.5 |
The rest of the places (25)
| United Kingdom | 2019 | 11.4 |
| Estonia | 2025 | 11.2 |
| Finland | 2025 | 11.2 |
| Slovakia | 2025 | 11.1 |
| European Union | 2025 | 11.0 |
| Latvia | 2025 | 11.0 |
| Croatia | 2025 | 10.8 |
| Cyprus | 2025 | 10.6 |
| Hungary | 2025 | 10.6 |
| Austria | 2025 | 10.3 |
| Belgium | 2025 | 9.8 |
| Germany | 2025 | 9.5 |
| Poland | 2025 | 9.2 |
| Luxembourg | 2025 | 9.0 |
| Denmark | 2025 | 8.9 |
| Switzerland | 2025 | 8.7 |
| Malta | 2025 | 8.5 |
| Ireland | 2025 | 8.1 |
| Czechia | 2025 | 8.0 |
| Portugal | 2025 | 8.0 |
| Slovenia | 2025 | 7.6 |
| Norway | 2025 | 7.0 |
| Sweden | 2025 | 5.9 |
| Netherlands | 2025 | 5.3 |
| Iceland | 2025 | 4.2 |
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Poland
NEET rate
20.7→9.2
- Change
- -11.5 pts
- Years
- 2001–2025
Poland: 20.7 (2001) → 9.2 (2025). Difference -11.5 pts. Highest 21.7 in 2002; lowest 9.1 in 2023.
| Year | Country | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Poland | 9.2 |
| 2024 | Poland | 9.4 |
| 2023 | Poland | 9.1 |
| 2022 | Poland | 10.7 |
| 2021 | Poland | 13.2 |
| 2020 | Poland | 12.3 |
| 2019 | Poland | 11.4 |
| 2018 | Poland | 12.1 |
| 2017 | Poland | 12.9 |
| 2016 | Poland | 13.8 |
| 2015 | Poland | 14.6 |
| 2014 | Poland | 15.5 |
| 2013 | Poland | 16.2 |
| 2012 | Poland | 15.7 |
| 2011 | Poland | 15.2 |
| 2010 | Poland | 14.8 |
| 2009 | Poland | 14.0 |
| 2008 | Poland | 12.7 |
| 2007 | Poland | 14.4 |
| 2006 | Poland | 16.6 |
| 2005 | Poland | 18.4 |
| 2004 | Poland | 19.6 |
| 2003 | Poland | 20.8 |
| 2002 | Poland | 21.7 |
| 2001 | Poland | 20.7 |