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🎒 Youth Outside Work and Education

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

📅 2025📏 %181 entries
55.7% – 27.7%27.5% – 21.4%21.3% – 15.0%14.9% – 10.4%10.3% – 3.1%No data
1
🇦🇫Afghanistan
55.7%
2
🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe
50.4%
3
🇩🇯Djibouti
50.0%
4
🇾🇪Yemen
46.0%
5
🇸🇴Somalia
43.6%
6
🇬🇾Guyana
43.0%
7
🇬🇲Gambia
39.8%
8
🇹🇯Tajikistan
39.6%
9
🇧🇼Botswana
38.1%
10
🇱🇸Lesotho
38.1%
11
🇹🇩Chad
37.7%
12
🇮🇶Iraq
36.9%
13
🇸🇿Eswatini
36.7%
14
🇲🇷Mauritania
36.7%
15
🇸🇳Senegal
35.3%
16
🇻🇺Vanuatu
34.8%
17
🇿🇦South Africa
34.7%
18
🇵🇰Pakistan
34.4%
19
🇸🇾Syria
34.4%
20
🇬🇳Guinea
33.9%
21
🇲🇦Morocco
32.6%
22
🇭🇳Honduras
30.8%
23
🇸🇱Sierra Leone
30.8%
24
🇳🇦Namibia
30.7%
25
🇳🇵Nepal
30.7%
26
🇯🇴Jordan
30.6%
27
🇱🇾Libya
30.5%
28
🇿🇼Zimbabwe
30.1%
29
🇨🇩DR Congo
30.1%
30
🇼🇸Samoa
30.1%
31
🇨🇫Central African Republic
29.9%
32
🇨🇬Congo
29.4%
33
🇬🇦Gabon
29.4%
34
🇿🇲Zambia
29.1%
35
🇹🇱Timor-Leste
29.0%
36
🇨🇻Cape Verde
28.2%
37
🇵🇬Papua New Guinea
27.7%
38
🇬🇭Ghana
27.5%
39
🇲🇱Mali
27.2%
40
🇧🇧Barbados
26.2%
41
🇷🇼Rwanda
26.0%
42
🇮🇷Iran
26.0%
43
🇪🇷Eritrea
25.8%
44
🇹🇴Tonga
25.8%
45
🇩🇴Dominican Republic
25.8%
46
🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
25.7%
47
🇴🇲Oman
25.6%
48
🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea
25.1%
49
🇧🇫Burkina Faso
24.9%
50
🇪🇬Egypt
24.8%

Highlights

As of 2025, Afghanistan ranks first with 55.7%, followed by São Tomé and Príncipe (50.4%) and Djibouti (50.0%).

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 55.7% (Afghanistan) to 3.1% (Japan), with a median of 17.5%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 6 from Africa, 3 from Asia and 1 from the Americas.

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

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