NEET population

1. the absolute size of the NEET population and its sub-groups in absolute figures;
2. the NEET rate of the population and its sub-groups.

NEET refers to “Youth not in employment, education or training”. For further information about definitions and sources and methodology please see below at the end of the page.

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Definitions

Youth not in employment, education or training are those youth who were neither employed, nor enrolled in school nor in a formal training program (e.g. vocational training) during a specified reference period (e.g., one week). For statistical purposes, youth are defined as persons between the ages of 15 and 24 years.

NEET rate refers to the proportion of youth who are not in employment and not in education or training out of the total youth population in the same age-range. For statistical purposes, youth are defined as persons between the ages of 15 and 24 years.

For more information, refer to the ILO concepts and definitions page.

Sources and methodology

The data for the charts below is sourced from these data tables:

(1) “Youth not in employment, education or training (NEET) by sex -- ILO modelled estimates, Nov. 2020 (thousands) | Annual”, table code “EIP_2EET_SEX_NB_A”;

(2) “Share of youth not in employment, education or training (NEET) by sex -- ILO modelled estimates, Nov. 2020 (%) | Annual”, table code “EIP_2EET_SEX_RT_A”.

The data can be accessed here: https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/.

Warning about data quality: some of the data may be based on imputed observations. Imputed observations are not based on national data, are subject to high uncertainty and should not be used for country comparisons or rankings. For more information about the estimation and, where relevant, projection methodology, please refer to the ILOSTAT page on modelled estimates and projections.