Youth unemployment, ages 15-24 (% of labor force, national estimate)
Youth unemployment refers to the share of the labor force ages 15-24 without work but available for and seeking employment, in percent of the total youth labor force (national estimate), for the 8-country panel (USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Japan, China, India). Definitions of labor force and unemployment differ by country, so cross-country levels are not fully comparable (national-estimate methodology). The World Bank publishes the indicator in the World Development Indicators from the ILO Labour Force Statistics database (ILOSTAT), accessed 2026-06-22; WDI vintage last updated 2026-07-13. It is the youth slice of the connector's total unemployment dataset: youth rates run well above total rates everywhere on the panel (IND 2023: 15.47% youth vs 4.17% total), and it is the standard entry point for school-to-work and labor-market-inclusion analysis. Japan has the lowest youth rate in every fixture year (4.03% in 2023); the panel leader shifts from India (20.68% in 2021) to France (17.63% in 2023); China's 2022 and 2023 cells are null upstream (genuine reporting gap, kept verbatim, never interpolated). Units: % of total labor force ages 15-24.
- Source
- World Bank
- Rows
- 208
- Columns
- 4
- Source cadence
- Yearly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 25, 2026
- Theme
- economy
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| country_code | string | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (World Bank API field countryiso3code). |
| country_name | string | Country name as published by the World Bank API. |
| year | integer | Calendar year of the observation (World Bank API field date). |
| value | float | Indicator value for the country and year, as defined by the World Bank indicator (see the dataset description). Missing values are null. (unit: % of total labor force ages 15-24) |
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ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/youth_unemployment_15_24").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
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for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
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World Bank. (2026). Youth unemployment, ages 15-24 (% of labor force, national estimate) [Data set, snapshot 20260925T061731Z-763a884782f6, sha256 763a884782f6]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-25, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/youth_unemployment_15_24?snapshot=20260925T061731Z-763a884782f6
@misc{dz_world_bank_youth_unemployment_15_24_763a8847,
title = {{Youth unemployment, ages 15-24 (\% of labor force, national estimate)}},
author = {{World Bank}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/youth_unemployment_15_24?snapshot=20260925T061731Z-763a884782f6}},
note = {Snapshot 20260925T061731Z-763a884782f6, sha256 763a884782f69274f4179cf1065875ecdde34d2514aa143b5eef952a20580f41; accessed 2026-09-25}
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