The global NEET rate (people not in education, employment, or training) among youth decreased from 2005 to 2012, before stabilizing since. In 2023, it stood at **** percent of youth between 15 and 24 years that were neither in education, employment, nor training.
As of the first quarter of 2025, approximately *****percent of 18 to 24-year-old's in the United Kingdom were not in education, employment or training (NEET) compared with ****percent of 16 to 17-year-old's. During this time period, the share of people who were NEET reached a peak in Q3 2011, when *****percent of young people in the UK fell into this category.
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Quarterly estimates for young people (aged 16 to 24 years) who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) in the UK. These are official statistics in development.
Approximately one out of every five Brazilians aged 15-to-24 years old were neither in employment nor education or training (NEET) in 2023. This represented a decreased compared to the previous year, when the youth NEET rate stood at around 21 percent.
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Young people from the Chinese (4.5%) and Indian (7.3%) ethnic groups were less likely than the UK average (11.5%) to be not in employment, education or training.
Japan was the country with the lowest NEET rate (people not in education, employment, or training) among youth worldwide as of 2022, reaching *** percent, with the Netherlands right behind. Europe and Central Asia were the world regions with the lowest youth NEET rate.
Statistics for young people not in education, employment, or training (NEET) in England, between October and December 2013 (quarter 4).
This brief is made up of data from the Department for Education 16 to 18 participation SFR, the labour force survey (LFS), and regional NEET figures.
The publication includes:
Additional tables 1: supplementary tables disaggregating NEET estimates from the LFS for 16- to 24-year-olds by; region and gender
Additional tables 2: supplementary tables disaggregating NEET estimates from the LFS for 18- to 24-year-olds by; region and gender
Additional tables 3: supplementary tables disaggregating NEET estimates from the LFS for 19- to 24-year-olds by; region and gender
Additional tables 4: supplementary tables of national NEET estimates from the LFS for all age groups
Additional tables 5: supplementary tables disaggregating NEET estimates from the LFS by age and gender and labour market status
Post-16 statistics team
Sally Marshall, Data Insight and Statistics Division
Department for Education
2 St Paul’s Place
125 Norfolk Street
Sheffield
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Email mailto:post16.statistics@education.gov.uk">post16.statistics@education.gov.uk
Local authorities have a duty to track young people’s activity to identify those not participating and support them to do so.
The data shows the number and proportion of 16- and 17-year-olds recorded as in education or training in each local authority area and an estimate of the proportion and number of 16- and 17-year-olds who are recorded as NEET or whose activity is ‘not known’.
Until 2018 this information was made available for December, March and June quarters but following an internal review this was revised and from 2018 became an annual release for March only.
Caution should be taken when comparing historic figures due to a change in the methodology from 2016 where NEET and not known were reported as the headline statistic. Previously an adjustment was made to the NEET figure to try and estimate the proportion of not known activity that was likely to be a result of the young person being NEET (see notes that accompany each publication for further information on the methodological change).
Also prior to 2016 local authorities were required to also track 18 year olds but this requirement was lifted and only those aged 16 and 17 are included in the 2016 and 2017 figures.
Number and proportion of persons aged 15-24 who are "Not in Education, Employment, or Training". It refers to youths who are unemployed, not currently attending school or not undertaking any training.
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This National Statistics release is based on data from the Labour Force Survey.
The release was published quarterly until March 2018, but has since been published annually.
It gives estimates of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET), and estimates of young people not in education or training (NET).
The figures cover 16 to 24 year olds in England, together with age breakdowns such as 16 to 17 year olds.
The figures include breakdowns by region, sex and labour market status. Breakdowns by health condition are included using the Annual Population Survey.
The data comes from:
The publication includes:
Labour market status refers to people who are:
Post-16 statistics team
Sally Marshall, Data Insight and Statistics Division
Department for Education
2 St Paul’s Place
125 Norfolk Street
Sheffield
S1 2FJ
Email mailto:post16.statistics@education.gov.uk">post16.statistics@education.gov.uk
This publication includes:
Additional tables 1: Supplementary tables disaggregating NEET estimates from the labour force survey (LFS) for 16- to 24-year-olds by; region and gender
Additional tables 2: Supplementary tables disaggregating NEET estimates from the LFS for 18- to 24-year-olds by; region and gender
Additional tables 3: Supplementary tables disaggregating NEET estimates from the LFS for 19- to 24-year-olds by; region and gender
Additional tables 4: Supplementary tables of national NEET estimates from the LFS for all age groups.
Post-16 statistics team
Sally Marshall, Data Insight and Statistics Division
Department for Education
2 St Paul’s Place
125 Norfolk Street
Sheffield
S1 2FJ
Email mailto:post16.statistics@education.gov.uk">post16.statistics@education.gov.uk
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This dataset contains counts and rates of young people aged 15–24 years who were not in employment, education, or training (NEET) during the 2015 calendar year. The report containing maps of this data can be found at www.stats.govt.nz/about_us/what-we-do/partnerships.... The data was provided by the Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI) which brings together a wide range of data from government administrative sources and surveys. Disclaimer Any person who has had access to the unit-record data has certified that they have been shown, have read, and have understood section 81 of the Tax Administration Act 1994, which relates to secrecy. Access to the anonymised data used in this study was provided by Stats NZ in accordance with security and confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act 1975. Only people authorised by the Statistics Act 1975 are allowed to see data about a particular person, household, business and or organisation and the results in these tables have been confidentialised to protect these groups from identification. Careful consideration has been given to the privacy, security and confidentiality issues associated with using administrative and survey data in the IDI. Any person who has had access to the unit-record data has certified that they have been shown, have read, and have understood section 81 of the Tax Administration Act 1994, which relates to secrecy. Any discussion of data limitations or weaknesses is in the context of using the IDI for statistical purposes, and is not related to the data's ability to support Inland Revenue's core operational requirements. Values of -999 are supressed to protect confidentiality. Citation Stats NZ (2017). Otago youth not in employment, education, or training (NEET): Collaborative research between Stats NZ Methodist Mission Southern using integrated data. Retrieved from www.stats.govt.nz.
Approximately 13 percent of Russian 15-to-24-year-olds were neither in employment nor education or training (NEET) in 2023. Over the observed period, the highest figure was recorded at 14.5 percent in 2010.
In 2023, more than nine percent of 15 to 29-year-olds in Finland were neither in education, employment nor training (NEET), the highest of the five Nordic countries. On the other hand, the NEET rate in Sweden and Iceland was only below six percent, the lowest of the five countries.
As of 2023, ***** had the highest NEET rate (people not in education, employment, or training) among young women, reaching over ** percent. On the other hand, ***** had the lowest female youth NEET rate of the G20 members. It also had the lowest male youth NEET rate, whereas ************ had the highest among men.
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This is the number of 16 and 17 year olds who are not in education, employment, or training (NEET), expressed as a proportion of the number of 16 and 17 year olds known to the local authority (i.e. those who were educated in government-funded schools). Young adult offenders in custody are excluded from the denominator used to calculate participation, NEET and not known rates. The age of the learner is measured at the beginning of the academic year, 31 August. The annual figure is made from an average of December, January and February. This includes young people educated in other authority areas, students living away during term time. Young people who were not educated in the maintained sector will only be included if they are known to the LA. Since April 2018, the NCCIS management information requirement stated that LAs should record the activity of refugee/asylum seekers in the same way as the rest of the cohort. Prior to 2016 local authorities were required to also track 18 year olds but this requirement was lifted. Where a young person's current activity is recorded as any of the following then their activity at the end of the month is categorised as NEET: Working not for rewardNot yet ready for work or learningStart date agreed (RPA compliant or Other)Seeking employment, education or trainingNot available to labour market/learning - carer, teenage parent, illness, pregnancy, religious grounds, unlikely ever to be economically active. The following are included in the overall NEET/NK figures: Current situation not knownCannot be contacted/no current addressRefused to disclose activity.Data is Powered by LG Inform Plus and automatically checked for new data on the 3rd of each month.
The global NEET rate (people not in education, employment, or training) among youth was constantly about twice as high among women than among men. In 2023, ** percent of men between 15 and 24 years were neither in education, employment, nor training, compared to almost ** percent among women.
The dataset "yth_empl_150" has been replaced by "edat_lfse_20" since 02/12/2022.
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This is the number of 16 and 17 year olds who are not in education, employment, or training (NEET) or their activity is not known, expressed as a proportion of the number of 16 and 17 year olds known to the local authority (i.e. those who were educated in government-funded schools). Young adult offenders in custody are excluded from the denominator used to calculate participation, NEET and not known rates. The age of the learner is measured at the beginning of the academic year, 31 August. The annual figure is made from an average of December, January and February. This includes young people educated in other authority areas, students living away during term time. Young people who were not educated in the maintained sector will only be included if they are known to the LA. Since April 2018, the NCCIS management information requirement stated that LAs should record the activity of refugee/asylum seekers in the same way as the rest of the cohort. Prior to 2016 local authorities were required to also track 18 year olds but this requirement was lifted. Where a young person's current activity is recorded as any of the following then their activity at the end of the month is categorised as NEET: Working not for rewardNot yet ready for work or learningStart date agreed (RPA compliant or Other)Seeking employment, education or trainingNot available to labour market/learning - carer, teenage parent, illness, pregnancy, religious grounds, unlikely ever to be economically active. The following are included in the overall NEET/NK figures: Current situation not knownCannot be contacted/no current addressRefused to disclose activity.Data is Powered by LG Inform Plus and automatically checked for new data on the 3rd of each month.
The global NEET rate (people not in education, employment, or training) among youth decreased from 2005 to 2012, before stabilizing since. In 2023, it stood at **** percent of youth between 15 and 24 years that were neither in education, employment, nor training.