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Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training

23 years, 2002–2024 · 97 countries

The NEET rate is the share of 15-to-24-year-olds who are neither in work nor in education or training. It is the broadest measure of young people disconnected from both the labour market and the school system, and it catches what youth unemployment misses.

This site holds every year from 2002 to 2024, read from ILO’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training · the file

Newest
Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 2024
Held
23 years · 2,088 rows
Licence
CC BY 4.0

0123 years

Every year

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.

2002bar height: countries covered, up to 1202024
Every year of Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 2024Newest97+8 −15September 10, 2026CSV
Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 2023104+9 −20September 10, 2026CSV
Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 2022115+22 −15September 10, 2026CSV
Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 2021108+18 −14September 10, 2026CSV
Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 2020104+10 −26September 10, 2026CSV
Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 2019120+25 −8September 10, 2026CSV
Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 2018103+14 −23September 10, 2026CSV
Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 2017112+22 −15September 10, 2026CSV
Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 2016105+19 −8September 10, 2026CSV
Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 201594+8 −27September 10, 2026CSV
Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 2014113+24 −11September 10, 2026CSV
Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 2013100+14 −11September 10, 2026CSV
Show all 23 years
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 201297+17 −13September 10, 2026CSV
Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 201193+14 −17September 10, 2026CSV
Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 201096+17 −9September 10, 2026CSV
Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 200988+23 −5September 10, 2026CSV
Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 200870+9 −10September 10, 2026CSV
Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 200771+13 −13September 10, 2026CSV
Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 200671+14 −10September 10, 2026CSV
Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 200567+15 −3September 10, 2026CSV
Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 200455+7 −7September 10, 2026CSV
Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 200355+9 −4September 10, 2026CSV
Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 200250—September 10, 2026CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: youth-neet-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

023 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2024DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—970
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—970
Youth not in education, employment or training (%)youth_neetHeadlineThe headline figure: Youth not in education, employment or training (%).Number · up to 3 decimals3.975Iceland65.734Belarusmiddle 14.306970

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

03181 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each year of Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, by continent.
201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
Africa13209112013261316241718
Americas212119232223222122202018
Asia242724262624282627262318
Europe383939403938383838393839
Oceania463555665664
All1001139410511210312010410811510497

The newest 12 of 23 years.

Who joined and who left

  • 2024
    + Belarus+ Fiji+ Gabon+ Lesotho+ Malawi+ Nauru+ Palestine+ Tanzania− United Arab Emirates− Armenia− Gambia− Grenada− Indonesia− Jamaica− Kyrgyzstan− Cambodia− Kiribati− New Caledonia− Philippines− Palau− Eswatini− Tonga− Tunisia
  • 2023
    + United Arab Emirates+ Gambia+ Grenada+ Cambodia+ Kiribati+ Palau+ Eswatini+ Seychelles+ Tonga− Benin− Belarus− Côte d’Ivoire− Guinea-Bissau− Laos− Madagascar− Mozambique− Malaysia− Niger− Oman− Peru− Papua New Guinea− Palestine− Sudan− Somalia− Chad− Togo− Timor-Leste− Tuvalu− Samoa
  • 2022
    + Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Bangladesh+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Guinea-Bissau+ Laos+ Madagascar+ Mali+ Mozambique+ New Caledonia+ Niger+ Nigeria+ Oman+ Papua New Guinea+ Russia+ Sudan+ Senegal+ Somalia+ Chad+ Togo+ Tuvalu+ Samoa− Afghanistan− Cameroon− Comoros− Ethiopia− Grenada− Guyana− Iraq− Kenya− Cambodia− Marshall Islands− Nauru− Pakistan− Eswatini− Tonga− Uganda
  • 2021
    + Cameroon+ Colombia+ Comoros+ Ecuador+ Ethiopia+ Ghana+ Guatemala+ Honduras+ Iraq+ Kenya+ Marshall Islands+ Nauru+ Eswatini+ Timor-Leste+ Tonga+ Tunisia+ Uganda+ Zimbabwe− Burundi− DR Congo− Curaçao− Kiribati− Mali− Myanmar− Malawi− New Caledonia− Palau− Puerto Rico− Seychelles− Tanzania− Venezuela− Vanuatu
  • 2020
    + Afghanistan+ Burundi+ Chile+ DR Congo+ Curaçao+ Malawi+ Palau+ Puerto Rico+ Tanzania+ Venezuela− Benin− Burkina Faso− Belize− Côte d’Ivoire− Colombia− Cabo Verde− Ecuador− Guinea− Guinea-Bissau− Guatemala− Honduras− Japan− Kenya− Lebanon− Lesotho− Maldives− Marshall Islands− Mauritania− Niger− Nigeria− Senegal− Somalia− Togo− Tunisia− Uganda− Zimbabwe
  • 2019
    + Angola+ Benin+ Botswana+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Guinea+ Kenya+ Cambodia+ Kiribati+ Lebanon+ Lesotho+ Maldives+ Marshall Islands+ Mauritania+ Niger+ Nigeria+ Saudi Arabia+ Senegal+ Somalia+ Seychelles+ Togo+ Trinidad and Tobago+ Tunisia+ Uganda+ Vanuatu+ Zimbabwe− Antigua and Barbuda− Curaçao− Gambia− Namibia− Sierra Leone− Chad− Tonga− Samoa
  • 2018
    + Antigua and Barbuda+ Burkina Faso+ Bhutan+ Curaçao+ Gambia+ Guinea-Bissau+ Grenada+ Guyana+ India+ Namibia+ Pakistan+ Sierra Leone+ Chad+ Tonga− Afghanistan− Burundi− Bangladesh− Chile− Côte d’Ivoire− Djibouti− Algeria− Ghana− Cambodia− Laos− Liberia− Mauritania− Malawi− Niger− Nepal− Paraguay− Senegal− São Tomé and Príncipe− Togo− Tuvalu− Uganda− Ukraine− Venezuela
  • 2017
    + Afghanistan+ Argentina+ Burundi+ Brunei+ Cabo Verde+ Djibouti+ Algeria+ Ghana+ Jordan+ Laos+ Myanmar+ Mauritania+ Malawi+ New Caledonia+ Niger+ Nepal+ Rwanda+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Togo+ Uganda+ Samoa+ Zambia− Barbados− Fiji− Kazakhstan− Kenya− Macau− Maldives− Namibia− Nigeria− Pakistan− Russia− Suriname− Eswatini− Tajikistan− Timor-Leste− Tonga

Not in this dataset · 43 places this site covers

ILO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaBahamasBahrainBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsCentral African RepublicChannel IslandsChinaCook IslandsCubaDominicaEquatorial GuineaEritreaFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamIsle of ManKuwaitLibyaLiechtensteinMonacoMontserratNiueNorth KoreaNorthern Mariana IslandsQatarSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSan MarinoSint MaartenSomalilandSyriaTaiwanTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsUnited States Virgin IslandsUzbekistanVatican City

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

  1. 1 · Publisher

    International Labour Organization (ILO)

    ilostat.ilo.org

  2. 2 · Their file

    Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training 2024

    SL.UEM.NEET.ZS

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 10, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

  4. 4 · Stored as

    23 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as youth-neet-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

    /statistics/youth-neet

Precision

The headline is stored to 3 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

From the ILO’s Labour Force Statistics database, pulled through the World Bank’s indicator API (SL.UEM.NEET.ZS). Measured rather than modelled, so years reporting fewer than 50 countries are not imported.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 10, 2026

CC BY 4.0

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

A credit line

Source: International Labour Organization (ILO), Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

International Labour Organization (ILO). Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training, 2002–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/youth-neet

The publisher’s own citation: International Labour Organization. Labour Force Statistics database (LFS). Geneva: ILOSTAT.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Where it is used

Around the site

Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.

07Questions

Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training: questions and answers

What is the Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training?

The NEET rate is the share of 15-to-24-year-olds who are neither in work nor in education or training. It is the broadest measure of young people disconnected from both the labour market and the school system, and it catches what youth unemployment misses.

Which years of the Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training can I download?

All 23, from 2002 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.

Does ILO rank countries on it?

No. ILO publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to ILO. The licence text is linked on this page.

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