ILO modelled estimates: youth unemployment rate by sex (annual)
Unemployment rate for ages 15-24 by sex, annual, for ~190 countries. ILO modelled estimates (ILOEST), vintage Nov. 2025 — dataflow DF_UNE_2EAP_SEX_AGE_RT.
unemploymentyouthlabourilomodelled-estimates
Quality
100
Attribution
International Labour Organization, ILOSTAT, https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/
Schema
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | string | Observation year from the ILO SDMX TIME_PERIOD dimension (annual frequency, FREQ=A), stored as January 1 of that year. |
| series_id | string | ILOSTAT dimension codes from the SDMX response as REF_AREA.SEX, e.g. 'USA.SEX_T' (United States of America, Total). REF_AREA codes are ISO alpha-3 country codes; SEX is the ILO codelist CL_SEX. |
| series_label | string | Country name from the ILO codelist CL_AREA and sex label from the ILO codelist CL_SEX, joined as 'Country — Sex', e.g. 'United States of America — Total'. |
| value | float | OBS_VALUE from the ILO SDMX response for DF_UNE_2EAP_SEX_AGE_RT, age band 15-24. Unit of measure reported by the ILO as PT (percent) — a rate in percent. (unit: percent) |
Sample rows
| date | series_id | series_label | value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991-01-01 | AFG.SEX_F | Afghanistan — Female | 13.807 |
| 1992-01-01 | AFG.SEX_F | Afghanistan — Female | 13.807 |
| 1993-01-01 | AFG.SEX_F | Afghanistan — Female | 13.773 |
| 1994-01-01 | AFG.SEX_F | Afghanistan — Female | 13.775 |
| 1995-01-01 | AFG.SEX_F | Afghanistan — Female | 13.789 |
Use with an LLM
Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).
cURL
curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/ilostat/ilo_youth_unemployment_rate" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'Python
import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/ilostat/ilo_youth_unemployment_rate").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/ilostat/ilo_youth_unemployment_rate
Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.