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👷 Unemployment, youth male

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

📅 2025📏 %181 entries
76.1% – 20.4%20.4% – 14.7%14.6% – 9.5%9.4% – 6.1%5.9% – 0.2%No data
1
🇩🇯Djibouti
76.1%
2
🇿🇦South Africa
56.5%
3
🇸🇿Eswatini
50.9%
4
🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
42.3%
5
🇱🇾Libya
41.9%
6
🇨🇬Congo
41.6%
7
🇧🇼Botswana
41.3%
8
🇹🇳Tunisia
39.0%
9
🇯🇴Jordan
37.9%
10
🇳🇦Namibia
36.9%
11
🇵🇫French Polynesia
33.2%
12
🇸🇴Somalia
32.4%
13
🇾🇪Yemen
32.0%
14
🇬🇦Gabon
31.6%
15
🇳🇨New Caledonia
30.3%
16
🇭🇹Haiti
30.0%
17
🇸🇾Syria
29.5%
18
🇬🇪Georgia
29.2%
19
🇲🇰North Macedonia
28.9%
20
🇮🇶Iraq
28.1%
21
🇦🇴Angola
27.8%
22
🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina
26.5%
23
🇩🇿Algeria
26.5%
24
🇦🇱Albania
25.4%
25
🇸🇪Sweden
25.2%
26
🇨🇻Cape Verde
24.8%
27
🇲🇪Montenegro
24.7%
28
🇷🇴Romania
24.4%
29
🇪🇸Spain
23.9%
30
🇦🇲Armenia
23.4%
31
🇱🇺Luxembourg
23.0%
32
🇺🇾Uruguay
22.9%
33
🇫🇮Finland
22.2%
34
🇲🇦Morocco
21.7%
35
🇱🇨Saint Lucia
21.3%
36
🇻🇮United States Virgin Islands
20.6%
37
🇷🇸Serbia
20.4%
38
🇬🇾Guyana
20.4%
39
🇪🇪Estonia
20.0%
40
🇵🇹Portugal
19.7%
41
🇲🇷Mauritania
19.6%
42
🇧🇪Belgium
19.6%
43
🇲🇻Maldives
19.5%
44
🇮🇷Iran
19.3%
45
🇮🇹Italy
19.3%
46
🇧🇧Barbados
19.3%
47
🇨🇱Chile
19.2%
48
🇳🇵Nepal
19.1%
49
🇫🇷France
18.9%
50
🇧🇸Bahamas
18.9%

Highlights

As of 2025, Djibouti ranks first with 76.1%, followed by South Africa (56.5%) and Eswatini (50.9%).

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 76.1% (Djibouti) to 0.2% (Qatar), with a median of 11.9%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 8 from Africa, 1 from the Americas and 1 from Asia.

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

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