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

Data - Eurostat

Author

François Geerolf

Last observation: 2025 (N = 58)

First observation: 2003 (N = 1)

Last data update: 11 sept. 2026, 23:01

Last compile: 20 sept. 2026, 23:52

Structure

Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal

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

  add_flag_color("Geo") |>
  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() |>
  
  add_flag_color("Geo") |>
  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(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() |>
  
  add_flag_color("Geo") |>
  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(breaks = 0.01*seq(-300, 2200, 2),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1)) +
  geom_hline(yintercept = 0.02, linetype = "dashed")

Euro-area slack

Youth unemployment (15-24)

Euro area, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece

Code 
tipslm80 |>
  filter(geo %in% c("EA20", "EL", "ES", "IT", "DE"),
         unit == "PC_ACT") |>
  year_to_date() |>
  filter(!is.na(values)) |>
  mutate(Geo = ifelse(geo == "EA20", "Europe", Geo),
         Geo = ifelse(geo == "DE", "Germany", Geo)) |>
  add_flag_color("Geo") |>
  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(1990, 2100, 2), "-01-01")),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  xlab("") + ylab("Youth unemployment rate (15-24, % of active population)") +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(0, 100, 10),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1))