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👷 Unemployment, youth female

Youth unemployment refers to the share of the labor force ages 15-24 without work but available for and seeking employment.

📅 2025📏 %181 entries
77.7% – 26.7%26.2% – 17.6%17.5% – 10.7%10.5% – 6.3%6.1% – 0.3%No data
1
🇩🇯Djibouti
77.7%
2
🇱🇾Libya
69.2%
3
🇮🇶Iraq
66.4%
4
🇿🇦South Africa
64.1%
5
🇸🇿Eswatini
57.7%
6
🇧🇼Botswana
51.7%
7
🇸🇾Syria
50.9%
8
🇭🇹Haiti
47.9%
9
🇩🇿Algeria
45.0%
10
🇬🇦Gabon
42.4%
11
🇯🇴Jordan
41.8%
12
🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
41.4%
13
🇵🇫French Polynesia
41.1%
14
🇳🇦Namibia
39.5%
15
🇨🇬Congo
39.4%
16
🇾🇪Yemen
39.2%
17
🇪🇬Egypt
38.7%
18
🇸🇴Somalia
37.4%
19
🇸🇷Suriname
37.2%
20
🇱🇸Lesotho
37.1%
21
🇳🇨New Caledonia
36.6%
22
🇹🇳Tunisia
36.0%
23
🇨🇻Cape Verde
33.9%
24
🇮🇷Iran
32.0%
25
🇬🇪Georgia
31.9%
26
🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina
31.4%
27
🇦🇲Armenia
30.6%
28
🇬🇾Guyana
30.2%
29
🇲🇷Mauritania
29.8%
30
🇧🇿Belize
29.5%
31
🇰🇼Kuwait
29.5%
32
🇴🇲Oman
29.0%
33
🇲🇰North Macedonia
28.5%
34
🇦🇫Afghanistan
28.5%
35
🇺🇾Uruguay
28.0%
36
🇻🇮United States Virgin Islands
27.5%
37
🇦🇴Angola
26.7%
38
🇵🇦Panama
26.2%
39
🇦🇱Albania
25.9%
40
🇪🇸Spain
25.7%
41
🇬🇷Greece
25.0%
42
🇱🇰Sri Lanka
24.8%
43
🇨🇱Chile
24.7%
44
🇷🇴Romania
24.7%
45
🇲🇪Montenegro
24.1%
46
🇸🇪Sweden
23.4%
47
🇳🇵Nepal
23.2%
48
🇲🇦Morocco
22.6%
49
🇮🇹Italy
22.6%
50
🇨🇴Colombia
22.3%

Highlights

As of 2025, Djibouti ranks first with 77.7%, followed by Libya (69.2%) and Iraq (66.4%).

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 77.7% (Djibouti) to 0.3% (Niger), with a median of 13.0%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 7 from Africa, 2 from Asia and 1 from the Americas.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Unemployment, youth female (% of female labor force ages 15-24) (modeled ILO estimate), 2025. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Unemployment, youth female (% of female labor force ages 15-24) (modeled ILO estimate) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026