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Unemployment, youth total (% of total labor force ages 15-24) (national estimate)

Youth unemployment refers to the share of the labor force ages 15-24 without work but available for and seeking employment. Definitions of labor force and unemployment differ by country. Reported as: national estimate.

Coverage
206 of 251 countries
Latest data
2025
Series
206
Unit
percent
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Retrieved
2026-11-08
Indicator
unemployment-youth-total
Interva ID
worldbank-unemployment-youth-total

Recency

current

data to 2025; catalog to 2025

Provenance

2 steps

as the publisher declares it

Versions

2

catalog snapshots

Citation

BibTeX + CSL

versioned permalink

Quality profile

This profile describes what Interva can measure in the data. It does not claim the dataset is accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular use.

Recency

100%

Latest observation is 2025; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 0 year(s) behind (current).

Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.

Temporal completeness

73%

157 of 206 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 73% of its years.

Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.

Geographic coverage

Measured

Covers 206 of the 251 countries in the catalog.

Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.

History depth

Measured

The median series has 13 observations; the earliest begins in 1960.

Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.

Revisions

Measured

55 observation(s) restated by the publisher across 1 vintage(s) Interva has recorded.

Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.

Schema conformity

Not assessed

No declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Validity

Not assessed

No field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Consistency

Not assessed

Cross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.

2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-14.

By country

Unemployment, youth total (% of total labor force ages 15-24) (national estimate) for each of the 206 countries it covers, with the full history.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Angola202518.56percent
Argentina202519.24percent
Australia20259.53percent
Austria202512.16percent
Belarus20259.32percent
Belgium202517.41percent
Bhutan202517.92percent
Bolivia, Plurinational State of20254.17percent
Bosnia and Herzegovina202530.74percent
Brazil202513.59percent

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

    Labour Force Statistics database (LFS), International Labour Organization (ILO), uri: https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/bulk/, publisher: ILOSTAT, type: external database, date accessed: September 28, 2026

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Versions

A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.

  • CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded
  • 2026-11-0555 observation(s) restatedchecksum not recorded

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Citation

Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-08. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.

World Bank (2026). Unemployment, youth total (% of total labor force ages 15-24) (national estimate). Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-unemployment-youth-total (accessed 2026-11-14). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

BibTeX
@misc{interva-worldbank-unemployment-youth-total,
  title        = {Unemployment, youth total (\% of total labor force ages 15-24) (national estimate)},
  author       = {World Bank},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-unemployment-youth-total}},
  note         = {Interva dataset worldbank-unemployment-youth-total; catalog snapshot 2026-11-08},
  urldate      = {2026-11-14}
}

DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.

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