Countries by youth unemployment rate

Djibouti had the highest youth unemployment rate of 186 countries in 2014, at 72.04%. Niger had the lowest, at 0.67%. The median was 14.6% and the figure for the World was 15.6%. Source: the World Bank.

Highest72.04Djibouti

Lowest0.67Niger

Median14.6186 countries

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Top 40 countries, 2014

%. Source: World Bank (modelled estimate), Unemployment, youth total, % of total labor force ages 15-24, modeled ILO estimate (SL.UEM.1524.ZS). Retrieved 2026-10-11.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2014 (%)	Change on 2013
1	Djibouti	72.04	+0.69 pts
2	Bosnia and Herzegovina	64.6	+3.68 pts
3	Spain	53.17	-2.28 pts
4	North Macedonia	53.07	+1.48 pts
5	Greece	52.65	-5.85 pts
6	South Africa	51.19	-0.01 pts
7	Libya	50.68	+0.1 pts
8	Eswatini	49.31	-1.15 pts
9	Saint Lucia	47.86	-0.62 pts
10	Serbia	47.63	-1.83 pts
11	Croatia	45.7	-4.78 pts
12	Italy	42.67	+2.65 pts
13	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	42.01	-0.02 pts
14	Republic of the Congo	40.64	-0.28 pts
15	Albania	39.55	+8.35 pts
16	Namibia	38.73	-1.77 pts
17	New Caledonia	38.21	+0.63 pts
18	Georgia	37.37	-2.86 pts
19	Tunisia	36.91	+2.08 pts
20	Armenia	36.38	+1.34 pts
21	Palestine	36.33	-0.81 pts
22	Montenegro	36.01	-5.82 pts
23	Syria	35.98	+0.53 pts
24	Angola	35.74	-0.99 pts
25	Gabon	35.66	+0.31 pts
26	Cyprus	35.52	-2.57 pts
27	French Polynesia	35.46	+0.03 pts
28	Portugal	34.66	-3.79 pts
29	Botswana	34.6	-0 pts
30	Haiti	34.09	+0.35 pts
31	Somalia	33.55	-0.11 pts
32	Barbados	33.06	+3.94 pts
33	Egypt	32.2	-1.92 pts
34	Puerto Rico	30.71	-0.88 pts
35	Bahamas	28.99	-5.47 pts
36	Saudi Arabia	28.6	+1.66 pts
37	Jordan	27.61	-1.92 pts
38	Sudan	27.28	-1.87 pts
39	Cape Verde	26.93	+1.63 pts
40	Slovakia	26.75	-6.97 pts
41	Jamaica	26.35	-0.88 pts
42	U.S. Virgin Islands	26.3	+0.12 pts
43	Algeria	25.66	+0.21 pts
44	Iran	24.97	+1.1 pts
45	France	24.83	+0.46 pts
46	Yemen	24.76	+0.2 pts
47	Mauritius	24.73	+2.55 pts
48	India	24.71	+0.24 pts
49	Romania	24.36	+0.35 pts
50	Luxembourg	24.28	+7.99 pts
51	Costa Rica	24.23	+2.67 pts
52	Brunei	24.09	+0.75 pts
53	Bulgaria	23.77	-4.6 pts
54	Poland	23.73	-3.44 pts
55	Guyana	23.69	+0.44 pts
56	Lesotho	23.64	+0.34 pts
57	Ukraine	23.57	+5.93 pts
58	Ireland	23.42	-3.32 pts
59	Belgium	23.23	-0.46 pts
60	Sweden	22.82	-0.7 pts
61	Finland	20.45	+0.64 pts
62	Hungary	20.38	-6.17 pts
63	Slovenia	20.24	-1.43 pts
64	Morocco	19.97	+0.81 pts
65	Iraq	19.91	+2 pts
66	Lebanon	19.77	+0.66 pts
67	Latvia	19.6	-3.64 pts
68	South Sudan	19.58	-0.16 pts
69	Uruguay	19.42	+0.12 pts
70	Nepal	19.35	-0.03 pts
71	Lithuania	19.26	-2.64 pts
72	Argentina	19.14	-0.42 pts
73	Sri Lanka	18.78	+0.84 pts
74	Maldives	18.37	-1.26 pts
75	Belize	18.27	+1.37 pts
76	Colombia	18.25	-0.48 pts
77	Guam	18	-9.07 pts
78	Türkiye	17.7	-0.74 pts
79	Samoa	17.53	-0.03 pts
80	United Kingdom	17.51	-3.43 pts
81	Mauritania	17.36	+1.16 pts
82	Chile	16.98	+0.29 pts
83	Rwanda	16.55	+0.13 pts
84	Indonesia	15.98	0 pts
85	Czechia	15.84	-3.12 pts
86	Suriname	15.6	-3.73 pts
87	Brazil	15.5	-0.2 pts
88	Kuwait	15.46	+1.83 pts
89	Oman	15.33	-0.13 pts
90	Equatorial Guinea	15.21	-0.04 pts
91	Estonia	14.98	-3.73 pts
92	São Tomé and Príncipe	14.85	-2.25 pts
93	Venezuela	14.77	-1.46 pts
94	Fiji	14.44	+0.23 pts
95	Denmark	14.2	-0.58 pts
96	New Zealand	14.11	-1.19 pts
97	Russia	14.05	-0.15 pts
98	Zambia	14	-1.71 pts
99	Tajikistan	13.58	+0.14 pts
100	Azerbaijan	13.42	-0.06 pts
101	United States	13.41	-2.15 pts
102	Dominican Republic	13.34	-4.05 pts
103	Australia	13.31	+1.09 pts
104	Canada	13.2	-0.04 pts
105	Netherlands	12.53	-0.41 pts
106	Gambia	12.21	-1.52 pts
107	Mongolia	11.96	+1.38 pts
108	Honduras	11.87	+2.04 pts
109	Malta	11.7	-1.03 pts
110	Panama	11.52	+1.63 pts
111	Uzbekistan	11.37	+0.61 pts
112	Paraguay	11.1	+1.6 pts
113	Vanuatu	10.81	+0.35 pts
114	Belarus	10.8	-0.03 pts
115	Austria	10.51	+0.74 pts
116	China	10.51	+0.19 pts
117	Israel	10.43	+0.03 pts
118	Bangladesh	10.12	+0.45 pts
119	Afghanistan	10.09	-0.01 pts
120	Eritrea	9.9	-0.05 pts
121	Malaysia	9.77	-0.3 pts
122	Central African Republic	9.73	-0.07 pts
123	El Salvador	9.6	+1.08 pts
124	Iceland	9.57	-0.85 pts
125	Philippines	9.47	+0.3 pts
126	Sierra Leone	9.44	+0.71 pts
127	Mexico	9.42	+0.02 pts
128	Comoros	9.36	+0.07 pts
129	Ghana	9.31	+4.59 pts
130	Hong Kong	9.2	-0.24 pts
131	Turkmenistan	9.07	+0.13 pts
132	Ecuador	9.03	+0.7 pts
133	Bhutan	9.02	-0.37 pts
134	Timor-Leste	8.84	-0.24 pts
135	Switzerland	8.6	-0.15 pts
136	South Korea	8.59	-0.35 pts
137	Nicaragua	8.44	-0.57 pts
138	Singapore	8.38	-0.53 pts
139	Democratic Republic of the Congo	8.28	-0.1 pts
140	Kyrgyzstan	8.13	+0.47 pts
141	Nigeria	8.04	+0.33 pts
142	Norway	7.79	-1.26 pts
143	North Korea	7.63	-0.06 pts
144	Germany	7.61	-0.21 pts
145	Peru	7.55	+0.54 pts
146	Kenya	7.25	+0.07 pts
147	Mozambique	7.03	+0.04 pts
148	Zimbabwe	6.95	-0.66 pts
149	Burkina Faso	6.84	+0.31 pts
150	Senegal	6.83	+1.17 pts
151	Malawi	6.75	0 pts
152	Cuba	6.6	-1.47 pts
153	Japan	6.3	-0.51 pts
154	Cameroon	6.2	-0.04 pts
155	Guinea	5.97	+0.08 pts
156	Trinidad and Tobago	5.88	-0.39 pts
157	United Arab Emirates	5.82	-0.29 pts
158	Guatemala	5.69	+0.18 pts
159	Tonga	5.5	+0.45 pts
160	Bahrain	5.4	-0.04 pts
161	Bolivia	4.77	-0.62 pts
162	Côte d’Ivoire	4.7	-1.57 pts
163	Vietnam	4.67	+0.11 pts
164	Papua New Guinea	4.34	-0.17 pts
165	Pakistan	4.05	-1.93 pts
166	Togo	4	+0.3 pts
167	Guinea-Bissau	3.96	+0.08 pts
168	Macao	3.89	-0.24 pts
169	Kazakhstan	3.84	-0.08 pts
170	Tanzania	3.69	-2 pts
171	Ethiopia	3.63	+0.21 pts
172	Benin	3.61	-0.35 pts
173	Laos	3.41	+0.48 pts
174	Uganda	3.32	+0.73 pts
175	Thailand	3.11	+1.88 pts
176	Burundi	2.93	+0.22 pts
177	Madagascar	2.54	+0.76 pts
178	Moldova	2.3	-0.65 pts
179	Mali	2.24	-0.04 pts
180	Myanmar	1.58	0 pts
181	Liberia	1.55	-0.4 pts
182	Chad	1.39	+0.03 pts
183	Solomon Islands	1.29	+0.02 pts
184	Cambodia	1.06	+0.3 pts
185	Qatar	0.74	-0.37 pts
186	Niger	0.67	-1.65 pts

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Unemployed people under 25 as a percentage of the labour force under 25.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

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.

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Which country has the highest youth unemployment rate?

Djibouti, with 72.04% in 2014, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest youth unemployment rate?

Niger, with 0.67% in 2014.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: World Bank, Unemployment, youth total, % of total labor force ages 15-24, modeled ILO estimate (SL.UEM.1524.ZS). Retrieved 2026-10-11.