Countries by youth unemployment rate

Djibouti had the highest youth unemployment rate of 186 countries in 2016, at 73.01%. Qatar had the lowest, at 0.48%. The median was 13.66% and the figure for the World was 16.04%. Source: the World Bank.

Highest73.01Djibouti

Lowest0.48Qatar

Median13.66186 countries

World16.04History

Top 40 countries, 2016

%. 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	2016 (%)	Change on 2015
1	Djibouti	73.01	+0.52 pts
2	Bosnia and Herzegovina	56.26	-8.98 pts
3	South Africa	53.45	+3.34 pts
4	Libya	51.38	-0.16 pts
5	North Macedonia	48.48	+1 pts
6	Greece	47.22	-2.51 pts
7	Eswatini	46.97	-1.38 pts
8	Saint Lucia	45.88	-1.11 pts
9	Spain	44.45	-3.91 pts
10	Namibia	44.21	+2.99 pts
11	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	42.09	+0.06 pts
12	Republic of the Congo	41.71	+0.49 pts
13	Palestine	38.51	+1.29 pts
14	Italy	37.76	-2.56 pts
15	New Caledonia	37.05	-0.53 pts
16	Gabon	36.19	+0.33 pts
17	Montenegro	36.06	-1.66 pts
18	Albania	35.92	-3.71 pts
19	French Polynesia	35.78	+0.2 pts
20	Armenia	35.66	+3.8 pts
21	Jordan	35.61	+4.7 pts
22	Tunisia	35.12	+0.15 pts
23	Georgia	35.02	-0.83 pts
24	Serbia	34.96	-8.27 pts
25	Botswana	34.85	+0.11 pts
26	Haiti	34.54	+0.36 pts
27	Angola	34.48	-0.64 pts
28	Egypt	33.66	-0.5 pts
29	Syria	33.63	-1.17 pts
30	Yemen	33.51	+0.81 pts
31	Somalia	33.47	+0.12 pts
32	Croatia	30.95	-11.36 pts
33	Cape Verde	30.18	+1.61 pts
34	Iran	29.09	+3.13 pts
35	Cyprus	28.9	-3.64 pts
36	Portugal	27.8	-3.99 pts
37	Brunei	27.63	+1.74 pts
38	U.S. Virgin Islands	26.75	+1.32 pts
39	Brazil	26.6	+7.1 pts
40	Algeria	26.23	-4.15 pts
41	Puerto Rico	26.2	-0.38 pts
42	Barbados	26.18	-2.67 pts
43	Bahamas	25.84	+1.06 pts
44	India	25.23	+0.27 pts
45	Suriname	24.96	+11.93 pts
46	France	24.94	-0.32 pts
47	Jamaica	24.66	-1.12 pts
48	Guyana	24.6	+0.39 pts
49	Saudi Arabia	24.28	-3.88 pts
50	Uruguay	24.15	+1.27 pts
51	Lesotho	24.05	+0.05 pts
52	Sudan	23.63	-1.6 pts
53	Ukraine	23.14	+0.53 pts
54	Mauritius	22.98	-2.59 pts
55	Iraq	22.45	+1.06 pts
56	Slovakia	22.27	-4.3 pts
57	Morocco	22.27	+1.44 pts
58	Luxembourg	21.98	+4.48 pts
59	Argentina	21.8	+1.53 pts
60	Costa Rica	21.65	-0.71 pts
61	Lebanon	21.37	+0.78 pts
62	Romania	21.02	-1 pts
63	Mongolia	20.14	+7.4 pts
64	Belgium	20.11	-2.02 pts
65	Sri Lanka	20.07	+0.84 pts
66	Finland	20.06	-2.25 pts
67	South Sudan	19.85	+0.43 pts
68	Mauritania	19.83	+1.32 pts
69	Nepal	19.55	+0.14 pts
70	Türkiye	19.37	+1.07 pts
71	Sweden	18.89	-1.47 pts
72	Samoa	18.61	+0.55 pts
73	Colombia	18.27	+0.96 pts
74	Poland	17.59	-3.09 pts
75	Latvia	17.27	+0.96 pts
76	Bulgaria	17.22	-4.43 pts
77	Ireland	16.8	-3.44 pts
78	Dominican Republic	16.74	+0.31 pts
79	Russia	16.69	+0.3 pts
80	Rwanda	16.6	-0 pts
81	Belize	16.55	+0.07 pts
82	Indonesia	16	-1.23 pts
83	Chile	15.8	-0.01 pts
84	Equatorial Guinea	15.38	-0.03 pts
85	Slovenia	15.24	-1.06 pts
86	Kuwait	15.14	-1.04 pts
87	Maldives	15.13	-1.71 pts
88	Fiji	14.99	+0.36 pts
89	Afghanistan	14.93	+2.4 pts
90	Lithuania	14.46	-1.85 pts
91	Oman	14.2	-0.95 pts
92	Estonia	14.13	-0.22 pts
93	Tajikistan	13.85	+0.13 pts
94	New Zealand	13.47	-0.4 pts
95	United Kingdom	13.21	-1.97 pts
96	Timor-Leste	13.07	+4.5 pts
97	Azerbaijan	12.93	-0.44 pts
98	Hungary	12.92	-4.35 pts
99	Guam	12.89	-3.52 pts
100	Australia	12.64	-0.47 pts
101	Canada	12.6	-0.16 pts
102	Honduras	12.58	+1.54 pts
103	Panama	12.3	+0.62 pts
104	Denmark	12.15	-0 pts
105	Venezuela	11.68	-1.66 pts
106	Bhutan	11.61	+1.5 pts
107	Paraguay	11.53	+0.61 pts
108	Uzbekistan	11.46	+0.01 pts
109	Austria	11.42	+0.51 pts
110	Vanuatu	11.32	+0.25 pts
111	Norway	11.04	+1.24 pts
112	Bangladesh	10.96	+0.39 pts
113	Malaysia	10.84	-0.14 pts
114	Belarus	10.73	-0.04 pts
115	Malta	10.71	-0.94 pts
116	Netherlands	10.64	-0.46 pts
117	Ghana	10.62	-3.62 pts
118	São Tomé and Príncipe	10.61	-2.19 pts
119	China	10.57	-0.11 pts
120	Zambia	10.51	-1.86 pts
121	Czechia	10.49	-2.09 pts
122	United States	10.43	-1.2 pts
123	Ecuador	10.35	+1.53 pts
124	South Korea	10.15	+0.25 pts
125	Eritrea	10	-0.04 pts
126	Gambia	9.82	-1.2 pts
127	Central African Republic	9.75	-0.06 pts
128	Hong Kong	9.73	-0.7 pts
129	El Salvador	9.5	+0.84 pts
130	Comoros	9.5	+0.1 pts
131	Nigeria	9.1	+0.64 pts
132	Zimbabwe	8.95	+0.93 pts
133	Kyrgyzstan	8.93	+0.42 pts
134	Turkmenistan	8.79	-0.13 pts
135	Singapore	8.72	-0.17 pts
136	Trinidad and Tobago	8.72	+2.85 pts
137	Switzerland	8.58	-0.24 pts
138	Israel	8.51	-0.69 pts
139	Democratic Republic of the Congo	8.28	+0.06 pts
140	Peru	8.27	+1.4 pts
141	North Korea	8.09	+0.33 pts
142	Philippines	7.63	-0.88 pts
143	Mexico	7.62	-0.89 pts
144	Mozambique	7.4	+0.3 pts
145	Burkina Faso	7.38	+0.22 pts
146	Nicaragua	7.34	-1.45 pts
147	Kenya	7.33	+0.03 pts
148	Germany	7.08	-0.25 pts
149	Malawi	6.82	+0.07 pts
150	Togo	6.81	+2.5 pts
151	Bolivia	6.77	-0.08 pts
152	Vietnam	6.76	+0.5 pts
153	Sierra Leone	6.71	-1.43 pts
154	Senegal	6.37	-1.67 pts
155	Guinea	6.35	+0.08 pts
156	Iceland	6.32	-2.26 pts
157	Cameroon	6.3	+0.07 pts
158	Tonga	6.01	+0.18 pts
159	Guatemala	5.58	0 pts
160	Bahrain	5.53	+0.1 pts
161	Pakistan	5.17	-1.52 pts
162	Japan	5.12	-0.35 pts
163	United Arab Emirates	5.11	-0.34 pts
164	Macao	4.98	+0.64 pts
165	Cuba	4.96	-1 pts
166	Laos	4.84	+0.94 pts
167	Uganda	4.41	+0.54 pts
168	Papua New Guinea	4.19	-0.08 pts
169	Ethiopia	4.03	+0.22 pts
170	Guinea-Bissau	3.87	-0.02 pts
171	Kazakhstan	3.81	+0.04 pts
172	Thailand	3.71	+0.62 pts
173	Madagascar	3.58	+0.28 pts
174	Tanzania	3.24	-0.2 pts
175	Benin	3.24	-0.18 pts
176	Moldova	3.02	-0.32 pts
177	Myanmar	2.55	+0.96 pts
178	Burundi	2.46	-0.23 pts
179	Liberia	2.31	+0.38 pts
180	Mali	2.13	-0.04 pts
181	Côte d’Ivoire	2.04	-1.34 pts
182	Chad	1.46	+0.04 pts
183	Solomon Islands	1.3	0 pts
184	Cambodia	1.14	+0.39 pts
185	Niger	0.72	+0.01 pts
186	Qatar	0.48	-0.09 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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Questions

Which country has the highest youth unemployment rate?

Djibouti, with 73.01% in 2016, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest youth unemployment rate?

Qatar, with 0.48% in 2016.

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.