Youth unemployment rate - % of active population aged 15-24 - tipslm80

Data - Eurostat

Author

François Geerolf

Info

Last observation: Annual: 2025 (N = 58)

First observation: Annual: 2003 (N = 1)

Last data update: 11 aoû 2026, 22:31. Last compile: 12 aoû 2026, 04:00

Structure

unit

Code

tipslm80 %>%
  select_if(~n_distinct(.) > 1) |>
  
  group_by(unit, Unit) |>
  summarise(Nobs = n()) |>
  arrange(-Nobs) |>
  print_table_conditional()

unit	Unit	Nobs
PC_ACT	Percentage of population in the labour force	519
PPCH_3Y	Percentage point change (t-(t-3))	429

Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal

Code

tipslm80 |>
  filter(geo %in% c("EL", "ES", "IT", "PT"),
         unit == "PC_ACT") |>
  year_to_date() |>

  left_join(colors, by = c("Geo" = "country")) |>
  mutate(values = values/100) |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = values, color = color)) + theme_minimal() +
  scale_color_identity() + add_flags +
  scale_x_date(breaks = as.Date(paste0(seq(1960, 2100, 2), "-01-01")),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  xlab("") + ylab("Youth unemployment rate - % of active population aged 15-24") +
  scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1))

Latest Year: Cross-Country Snapshot

Code

latest_y_youth <- tipslm80 |>
  filter(unit == "PC_ACT",
         !is.na(values)) |>
  summarise(m = max(time)) |>
  pull(m)

tipslm80 |>
  filter(unit == "PC_ACT",
         time == latest_y_youth,
         !geo %in% c("EA20", "EA21", "EU27_2020")) |>
  select(Geo, values) |>
  rename(`Youth unemployment rate (%)` = values) |>
  arrange(-`Youth unemployment rate (%)`) |>
  print_table_conditional()

Geo	Youth unemployment rate (%)
Romania	26.1
Spain	24.9
Sweden	24.3
Finland	21.8
Estonia	20.7
Italy	20.6
France	19.8
Portugal	19.5
Greece	19.1
Croatia	18.3
Belgium	17.4
Slovakia	15.3
Latvia	14.8
Lithuania	14.1
Hungary	13.9
Denmark	13.8
Cyprus	13.5
Bulgaria	13.1
Poland	12.2
Slovenia	12.1
Ireland	11.8
Austria	11.5
Czechia	10.4
Malta	9.6
Netherlands	8.8
Germany	7.1

France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands

Levels

Code

tipslm80 |>
  filter(geo %in% c("FR", "DE", "NL", "ES", "IT"),
         unit == "PC_ACT") |>
  year_to_date() |>
  
  left_join(colors, by = c("Geo" = "country")) |>
  mutate(values = values/100) |>
  mutate(color = ifelse(geo == "NL", color2, color)) |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = values, color = color)) + theme_minimal() +
  scale_color_identity() + add_flags +
  scale_x_date(breaks = as.Date(paste0(seq(1960, 2100, 2), "-01-01")),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  xlab("") + ylab("Youth unemployment rate - % of active population aged 15-24") +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(-300, 2200, 2),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1))

Changes

Code

tipslm80 |>
  filter(geo %in% c("FR", "DE", "NL", "ES", "IT"),
         unit == "PPCH_3Y") |>
  year_to_date() |>
  
  left_join(colors, by = c("Geo" = "country")) |>
  mutate(values = values/100) |>
  mutate(color = ifelse(geo == "NL", color2, color)) |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = values, color = color)) + theme_minimal() +
  scale_color_identity() + add_flags +
  scale_x_date(breaks = as.Date(paste0(seq(1960, 2100, 2), "-01-01")),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  xlab("") + ylab("Youth unemployment rate - % of active population aged 15-24") +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(-300, 2200, 2),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1)) +
  geom_hline(yintercept = 0.02, linetype = "dashed")