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🧑‍💼 Highest Youth Employment Rates

Employed people aged 15–24 as a share of that age group's population; ILO modeled estimate.

📅 2025📏 %181 entries
75.9% – 48.0%47.8% – 37.8%37.7% – 29.6%29.5% – 23.9%23.7% – 3.1%No data
1
🇳🇱Netherlands
75.9%
2
🇮🇸Iceland
75.0%
3
🇰🇵North Korea
72.3%
4
🇳🇪Niger
70.4%
5
🇰🇭Cambodia
70.0%
6
🇹🇿Tanzania
69.1%
7
🇸🇧Solomon Islands
68.9%
8
🇲🇬Madagascar
68.6%
9
🇺🇬Uganda
66.9%
10
🇦🇺Australia
63.4%
11
🇪🇷Eritrea
61.5%
12
🇳🇬Nigeria
61.3%
13
🇩🇰Denmark
61.0%
14
🇨🇭Switzerland
59.7%
15
🇶🇦Qatar
59.4%
16
🇧🇴Bolivia
58.2%
17
🇲🇿Mozambique
57.4%
18
🇳🇴Norway
57.2%
19
🇳🇿New Zealand
56.3%
20
🇨🇫Central African Republic
54.5%
21
🇨🇦Canada
54.3%
22
🇱🇷Liberia
54.0%
23
🇱🇦Laos
52.9%
24
🇧🇮Burundi
52.0%
25
🇲🇹Malta
51.2%
26
🇧🇯Benin
51.0%
27
🇪🇹Ethiopia
51.0%
28
🇦🇹Austria
50.9%
29
🇩🇪Germany
50.9%
30
🇲🇱Mali
50.7%
31
🇵🇪Peru
50.0%
32
🇵🇾Paraguay
49.8%
33
🇯🇵Japan
49.2%
34
🇬🇹Guatemala
49.1%
35
🇧🇫Burkina Faso
48.4%
36
🇱🇨Saint Lucia
48.4%
37
🇮🇪Ireland
48.0%
38
🇧🇸Bahamas
47.8%
39
🇳🇮Nicaragua
47.5%
40
🇧🇷Brazil
47.0%
41
🇺🇸United States
46.1%
42
🇭🇳Honduras
46.0%
43
🇮🇱Israel
45.5%
44
🇬🇧United Kingdom
44.8%
45
🇦🇪United Arab Emirates
44.3%
46
🇧🇩Bangladesh
43.8%
47
🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau
43.7%
48
🇲🇻Maldives
43.6%
49
🇧🇿Belize
43.4%
50
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
43.1%

Highlights

As of 2025, Netherlands ranks first with 75.9%, followed by Iceland (75.0%) and North Korea (72.3%).

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 75.9% (Netherlands) to 3.1% (Djibouti), with a median of 33.2%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 4 from Africa, 2 from Asia, 2 from Europe and 2 from Oceania.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Employment to population ratio, ages 15-24, total (%) (modeled ILO estimate), 2025. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Employment to population ratio, ages 15-24, total (%) (modeled ILO estimate) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026