General Article Youth unemployment statistics

Topic Selected: Careers and Employability Book Volume: 405

Unemployment and education status

162,000 unemployed young people were in full-time education (35% of all unemployed young people) in November 2021-January 2022, similar to the previous quarter and a fall of 25,000 from the year before. Excluding those in full-time education, 295,000 people aged 16-24 were unemployed. This is similar to the previous quarter, and a fall of 104,000 from the year before.

The unemployment rate for 16-24 year olds in full-time education was 14.0%, down from 19.5% ...

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