Share of youth not in education, employment or training, total
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).
- Publisher
- World Bank
- Unit
- —
- Cadence
- Annual
- Series
- 181
- 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.
Produced by
International Labour Organization
Labour Force Statistics database (LFS), International Labour Organization (ILO), uri: https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/bulk/, publisher: ILOSTAT, type: external database, date accessed: June 22, 2026
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World Development Indicators
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Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angola | 2025 | 24.90 | percent |
| Argentina | 2025 | 15.21 | percent |
| Austria | 2025 | 13.41 | percent |
| Bhutan | 2025 | 15.30 | percent |
| Brazil | 2025 | 18.70 | percent |
| Burkina Faso | 2025 | 24.47 | percent |
| Canada | 2025 | 13.27 | percent |
| Chile | 2025 | 13.44 | percent |
| Colombia | 2025 | 21.98 | percent |
| Costa Rica | 2025 | 19.43 | percent |
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