# Countries by youth unemployment rate, 2025

All 181 values come from World Bank for 2025, so the places are comparable. 5 countries have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- Indicator id: `youth_unemployment_rate`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Unemployed people under 25 as a percentage of the labour force under 25.
- Source: World Bank, Unemployment, youth total, % of total labor force ages 15-24, modeled ILO estimate (SL.UEM.1524.ZS) (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.UEM.1524.ZS)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/world-bank
- Retrieved: 2026-10-11
- Citation: World Bank, World Development Indicators, modelled estimate. Unemployment, youth total, % of total labor force ages 15-24, modeled ILO estimate (SL.UEM.1524.ZS). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.UEM.1524.ZS. Retrieved 2026-10-11.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/youth-unemployment-rate/countries

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Djibouti | 76.77 |
| 2 | South Africa | 59.93 |
| 3 | Eswatini | 54.33 |
| 4 | Libya | 50.06 |
| 5 | Botswana | 46 |
| 6 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 41.95 |
| 7 | Republic of the Congo | 40.5 |
| 8 | Jordan | 38.88 |
| 9 | Tunisia | 38.08 |
| 10 | Namibia | 38.05 |
| 11 | Haiti | 37.52 |
| 12 | French Polynesia | 36.57 |
| 13 | Gabon | 36.28 |
| 14 | Somalia | 34.23 |
| 15 | New Caledonia | 33.11 |
| 16 | Syria | 33.1 |
| 17 | Yemen | 32.6 |
| 18 | Iraq | 32.01 |
| 19 | Georgia | 30.26 |
| 20 | Algeria | 29.44 |
| 21 | North Macedonia | 28.75 |
| 22 | Cape Verde | 28.42 |
| 23 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 28.2 |
| 24 | Angola | 27.23 |
| 25 | Armenia | 26.24 |
| 26 | Albania | 25.57 |
| 27 | Suriname | 25.44 |
| 28 | Uruguay | 25.15 |
| 29 | Guyana | 24.9 |
| 30 | Spain | 24.75 |
| 31 | Lesotho | 24.67 |
| 32 | Romania | 24.54 |
| 33 | Montenegro | 24.44 |
| 34 | Sweden | 24.31 |
| 35 | U.S. Virgin Islands | 24.2 |
| 36 | Mauritania | 22.92 |
| 37 | Iran | 21.9 |
| 38 | Morocco | 21.88 |
| 39 | Chile | 21.64 |
| 40 | Finland | 21.48 |
| 41 | Luxembourg | 21.47 |
| 42 | Greece | 21.39 |
| 43 | Serbia | 20.93 |
| 44 | Nepal | 20.56 |
| 45 | Italy | 20.55 |
| 46 | Saint Lucia | 20.25 |
| 47 | Portugal | 20.22 |
| 48 | Costa Rica | 19.95 |
| 49 | Panama | 19.77 |
| 50 | Estonia | 19.7 |
| 51 | Belize | 19.32 |
| 52 | Bahamas | 19.25 |
| 53 | Argentina | 19.19 |
| 54 | France | 18.89 |
| 55 | Sri Lanka | 18.58 |
| 56 | Barbados | 18.48 |
| 57 | Slovakia | 18.43 |
| 58 | Egypt | 18.29 |
| 59 | Brunei | 18.23 |
| 60 | Belgium | 17.78 |
| 61 | Colombia | 17.65 |
| 62 | Mauritius | 17.37 |
| 63 | Bhutan | 17.05 |
| 64 | Afghanistan | 16.79 |
| 65 | Croatia | 16.47 |
| 66 | Rwanda | 16.41 |
| 67 | Türkiye | 16.04 |
| 68 | India | 16.02 |
| 69 | China | 15.8 |
| 70 | Equatorial Guinea | 15.74 |
| 71 | Maldives | 15.69 |
| 72 | Zimbabwe | 15.55 |
| 73 | Kenya | 15.25 |
| 74 | Fiji | 15.21 |
| 75 | Kuwait | 15.06 |
| 76 | United Kingdom | 14.65 |
| 77 | Tajikistan | 14.59 |
| 78 | New Zealand | 14.36 |
| 79 | Hungary | 14.21 |
| 80 | Puerto Rico | 13.98 |
| 81 | Brazil | 13.98 |
| 82 | Oman | 13.89 |
| 83 | Guam | 13.81 |
| 84 | Canada | 13.8 |
| 85 | Lithuania | 13.76 |
| 86 | Norway | 13.42 |
| 87 | Azerbaijan | 13.09 |
| 88 | Indonesia | 12.98 |
| 88 | Samoa | 12.98 |
| 90 | Latvia | 12.95 |
| 91 | Cyprus | 12.71 |
| 92 | Dominican Republic | 12.31 |
| 93 | Malaysia | 11.95 |
| 94 | Denmark | 11.74 |
| 95 | Mongolia | 11.71 |
| 96 | Paraguay | 11.69 |
| 97 | Mozambique | 11.61 |
| 98 | Uzbekistan | 11.38 |
| 99 | Vanuatu | 11.34 |
| 100 | Austria | 11 |
| 101 | Gambia | 10.86 |
| 102 | Jamaica | 10.81 |
| 103 | Poland | 10.7 |
| 104 | Ireland | 10.49 |
| 105 | Zambia | 10.47 |
| 106 | Venezuela | 10.44 |
| 107 | Eritrea | 10.24 |
| 108 | Bulgaria | 10.15 |
| 109 | Central African Republic | 10.09 |
| 110 | Turkmenistan | 10.02 |
| 111 | Saudi Arabia | 10.01 |
| 112 | Myanmar | 9.81 |
| 113 | Australia | 9.61 |
| 114 | Pakistan | 9.59 |
| 115 | Nicaragua | 9.54 |
| 116 | Slovenia | 9.54 |
| 117 | Peru | 9.45 |
| 118 | Bangladesh | 9.39 |
| 119 | United States | 9.34 |
| 120 | Czechia | 9.22 |
| 121 | Belarus | 9.18 |
| 122 | Switzerland | 9.04 |
| 123 | Hong Kong | 8.96 |
| 124 | Netherlands | 8.83 |
| 125 | São Tomé and Príncipe | 8.79 |
| 126 | Comoros | 8.75 |
| 127 | Iceland | 8.67 |
| 128 | Honduras | 8.53 |
| 129 | Malta | 8.43 |
| 130 | Kyrgyzstan | 8.23 |
| 131 | Trinidad and Tobago | 8.22 |
| 132 | Ecuador | 8.16 |
| 133 | North Korea | 7.9 |
| 134 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 7.85 |
| 135 | El Salvador | 7.81 |
| 136 | Russia | 7.61 |
| 137 | Philippines | 7.04 |
| 138 | Guinea | 7.02 |
| 139 | Malawi | 6.95 |
| 140 | Germany | 6.86 |
| 141 | Singapore | 6.78 |
| 142 | Macao | 6.78 |
| 143 | South Korea | 6.7 |
| 144 | Cameroon | 6.55 |
| 145 | United Arab Emirates | 6.45 |
| 146 | Burkina Faso | 6.44 |
| 147 | Vietnam | 6.17 |
| 148 | Israel | 6.03 |
| 149 | Tonga | 6.03 |
| 150 | Ghana | 5.83 |
| 151 | Mexico | 5.71 |
| 152 | Bahrain | 5.42 |
| 153 | Ethiopia | 5.35 |
| 154 | Nigeria | 5.34 |
| 155 | Madagascar | 5.25 |
| 156 | Bolivia | 5.01 |
| 157 | Guatemala | 4.76 |
| 158 | Thailand | 4.53 |
| 159 | Cuba | 4.28 |
| 160 | Moldova | 4.2 |
| 161 | Uganda | 4.18 |
| 162 | Côte d’Ivoire | 4.01 |
| 163 | Japan | 3.9 |
| 164 | Mali | 3.88 |
| 165 | Kazakhstan | 3.81 |
| 166 | Papua New Guinea | 3.79 |
| 167 | Sierra Leone | 3.72 |
| 168 | Timor-Leste | 3.72 |
| 169 | Senegal | 3.62 |
| 170 | Togo | 3.44 |
| 171 | Benin | 2.89 |
| 172 | Guinea-Bissau | 2.84 |
| 173 | Solomon Islands | 2.76 |
| 174 | Laos | 2.38 |
| 175 | Tanzania | 2.38 |
| 176 | Liberia | 2.3 |
| 177 | Burundi | 1.68 |
| 178 | Chad | 1.46 |
| 179 | Cambodia | 0.71 |
| 180 | Qatar | 0.56 |
| 181 | Niger | 0.46 |