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👩‍🎓 Young Women Outside Work and Education

Share of young women neither in employment nor in education or training; ILO modeled estimate.

📅 2025📏 %181 entries
84.1% – 33.2%33.1% – 25.3%25.2% – 17.7%17.7% – 11.3%10.9% – 3.5%No data
1
🇦🇫Afghanistan
84.1%
2
🇾🇪Yemen
68.7%
3
🇵🇰Pakistan
56.6%
4
🇩🇯Djibouti
53.5%
5
🇮🇶Iraq
53.4%
6
🇹🇯Tajikistan
53.3%
7
🇲🇦Morocco
51.5%
8
🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe
51.4%
9
🇬🇾Guyana
50.2%
10
🇸🇴Somalia
50.0%
11
🇹🇩Chad
49.3%
12
🇲🇷Mauritania
48.6%
13
🇭🇳Honduras
45.1%
14
🇸🇳Senegal
44.1%
15
🇱🇸Lesotho
43.5%
16
🇬🇳Guinea
42.7%
17
🇸🇾Syria
42.4%
18
🇳🇵Nepal
41.4%
19
🇬🇹Guatemala
40.5%
20
🇲🇱Mali
39.9%
21
🇮🇳India
39.6%
22
🇸🇿Eswatini
39.4%
23
🇻🇺Vanuatu
39.0%
24
🇬🇲Gambia
38.9%
25
🇧🇼Botswana
38.4%
26
🇨🇫Central African Republic
38.1%
27
🇳🇮Nicaragua
36.6%
28
🇿🇼Zimbabwe
36.2%
29
🇮🇷Iran
36.2%
30
🇱🇾Libya
36.0%
31
🇿🇦South Africa
35.7%
32
🇪🇬Egypt
35.7%
33
🇧🇿Belize
35.7%
34
🇯🇴Jordan
34.8%
35
🇪🇷Eritrea
33.4%
36
🇬🇦Gabon
33.3%
37
🇳🇦Namibia
33.2%
38
🇸🇱Sierra Leone
33.1%
39
🇨🇩DR Congo
32.8%
40
🇨🇬Congo
32.6%
41
🇿🇲Zambia
32.5%
42
🇼🇸Samoa
32.5%
43
🇴🇲Oman
32.4%
44
🇸🇻El Salvador
32.2%
45
🇻🇪Venezuela
32.0%
46
🇧🇫Burkina Faso
31.3%
47
🇨🇲Cameroon
31.3%
48
🇵🇬Papua New Guinea
31.3%
49
🇩🇴Dominican Republic
31.0%
50
🇹🇷Türkiye
30.3%

Highlights

As of 2025, Afghanistan ranks first with 84.1%, followed by Yemen (68.7%) and Pakistan (56.6%).

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 84.1% (Afghanistan) to 3.5% (Japan), with a median of 21.4%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 5 from Asia, 4 from Africa and 1 from the Americas.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Share of youth not in education, employment or training, female (% of female youth population) (modeled ILO estimate), 2025. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Share of youth not in education, employment or training, female (% of female youth population) (modeled ILO estimate) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026