Share of youth not in education, employment or training, male

The share of youth not in education, employment or training (also known as “the NEET rate”) conveys the number of young persons not in education, employment or training as a percentage of the total youth population. Youth not in education are those who were neither enrolled in school nor in a formal training program (e.g. vocational training). For the purposes of this indicator, youth is defined as all persons between the ages of 15 and 24 (inclusive). Reported as: modeled ILO estimate.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
186
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    International Labour Organization

    ILO Modelled Estimates database (ILOEST), International Labour Organization (ILO), uri: https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/bulk/, publisher: ILOSTAT, type: external database, date accessed: January 17, 2026

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Afghanistan202528.67percent
Albania202522.48percent
Algeria20259.63percent
Angola202523.36percent
Argentina202514.71percent
Armenia202517.36percent
Australia20259.12percent
Austria202515.24percent
Azerbaijan20251.69percent
Bahamas202510.28percent

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