World youth unemployment rate rose last year: UN
Global youth unemployment rose last year, the United Nations has said, with some of the steepest increases seen in high-income countries as artificial intelligence begins to change the jobs market.
The tentative, short-lived recovery in youth labor markets that followed the COVID-19 pandemic has stalled, the U.N.'s labor agency said.
The International Labour Organization said the global youth unemployment rate rose from 12.3 percent in 2024 to 12.4 percent last year, equivalent to 67 million unemployed people aged 15 to 24.
Meanwhile the share of young people not in employment, education or training (NEET) increased slightly to 20 percent, affecting more than 257 million people, the ILO said in a report.
