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📉 Highest Youth Unemployment

Unemployment among people aged 15–24; ILO modeled estimate.

📅 2025📏 %181 entries
76.8% – 21.9%21.9% – 15.2%15.2% – 10.1%10.0% – 6.5%6.4% – 0.5%No data
1
🇩🇯Djibouti
76.8%
2
🇿🇦South Africa
59.9%
3
🇸🇿Eswatini
54.3%
4
🇱🇾Libya
50.1%
5
🇧🇼Botswana
46.0%
6
🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
41.9%
7
🇨🇬Congo
40.5%
8
🇯🇴Jordan
38.9%
9
🇹🇳Tunisia
38.1%
10
🇳🇦Namibia
38.1%
11
🇭🇹Haiti
37.5%
12
🇵🇫French Polynesia
36.6%
13
🇬🇦Gabon
36.3%
14
🇸🇴Somalia
34.2%
15
🇳🇨New Caledonia
33.1%
16
🇸🇾Syria
33.1%
17
🇾🇪Yemen
32.6%
18
🇮🇶Iraq
32.0%
19
🇬🇪Georgia
30.3%
20
🇩🇿Algeria
29.4%
21
🇲🇰North Macedonia
28.8%
22
🇨🇻Cape Verde
28.4%
23
🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina
28.2%
24
🇦🇴Angola
27.2%
25
🇦🇲Armenia
26.2%
26
🇦🇱Albania
25.6%
27
🇸🇷Suriname
25.4%
28
🇺🇾Uruguay
25.1%
29
🇬🇾Guyana
24.9%
30
🇪🇸Spain
24.7%
31
🇱🇸Lesotho
24.7%
32
🇷🇴Romania
24.5%
33
🇲🇪Montenegro
24.4%
34
🇸🇪Sweden
24.3%
35
🇻🇮United States Virgin Islands
24.2%
36
🇲🇷Mauritania
22.9%
37
🇮🇷Iran
21.9%
38
🇲🇦Morocco
21.9%
39
🇨🇱Chile
21.6%
40
🇫🇮Finland
21.5%
41
🇱🇺Luxembourg
21.5%
42
🇬🇷Greece
21.4%
43
🇷🇸Serbia
20.9%
44
🇳🇵Nepal
20.6%
45
🇮🇹Italy
20.5%
46
🇱🇨Saint Lucia
20.3%
47
🇵🇹Portugal
20.2%
48
🇨🇷Costa Rica
19.9%
49
🇵🇦Panama
19.8%
50
🇪🇪Estonia
19.7%

Highlights

As of 2025, Djibouti ranks first with 76.8%, followed by South Africa (59.9%) and Eswatini (54.3%).

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 76.8% (Djibouti) to 0.5% (Niger), with a median of 12.7%.

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 total (% of total labor force ages 15-24) (modeled ILO estimate), 2025. Unit: %.

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