United Kingdom UK: Adolescents Out of School: Female: % of Female Lower Secondary School Age data was reported at 1.329 % in 2015. This records a decrease from the previous number of 2.944 % for 2014. United Kingdom UK: Adolescents Out of School: Female: % of Female Lower Secondary School Age data is updated yearly, averaging 2.024 % from Dec 1971 (Median) to 2015, with 22 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 6.726 % in 1975 and a record low of 0.293 % in 2000. United Kingdom UK: Adolescents Out of School: Female: % of Female Lower Secondary School Age data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United Kingdom – Table UK.World Bank.WDI: Education Statistics. Adolescents out of school are the percentage of lower secondary school age adolescents who are not enrolled in school.; ; UNESCO Institute for Statistics; Weighted average; Each economy is classified based on the classification of World Bank Group's fiscal year 2018 (July 1, 2017-June 30, 2018).

In 2022, ******* was the most used social platform among children and teenagers in the United Kingdom, with ** percent of respondents stating that they had used the service. ******** ranked second, with ** percent of kids and teens in the UK being active on the platform. Additionally, usage of TikTok and Snapchat increased from 2021 to 2021 among those aged three to 17 in the UK. Youth accounts on the rise again From ** percent in 2012, the share of children aged 12 to 15 years of age with a social media account fell to ** percent in 2018, but increased again in 2020, peaking at ** percent. Despite some major social networks setting minimum age limits in their terms of service, ** percent of children aged 5 to 7 years had a social media account in 2020, according to Ofcom. Facebook falling out of favor with teens Among teens and young adults in the United States, Youtube and Instagram had a higher reach than any other social network, slightly ahead of Facebook and Snapchat. When you remove young adults from the picture, Snapchat is clearly the most important social network and Facebook barely comes into the equation. Since the Fall/Autumn period of 2017, less than ten percent of teens in the United States said Facebook was their most important social network, compared with more than ** percent of teens who nominated Snapchat. The new hot trend among Gen Z is TikTok, selected by ** percent of respondents and ranking second.

Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Bangladesh Chittagong and Sylhet Round 2, 2022 includes a sample of 2,027 girls and boys aged 12-19. The research sample, composed of randomly selected adolescents and their families, was recruited during February and March 2020 from adolescents attending grades 7 and 8, across 109 government and monthly-pay-order (MPO) schools in the Chittagong and Sylhet Divisions of Bangladesh.

The Round 2 data were collected in March and April 2022 as part of a randomised evaluation of two virtual interventions delivered during COVID-19-related school closures through the Transforming Secondary Education for Results Operation in partnership with The World Bank: (1) a gender-neutral Growth Mindset (GM) programming around malleable intelligence and (2) Girl Rising (GR) programming that focuses on gender norms around girls' education that is layered on top of the GM programming.

The first edition only includes the Core Respondent data and does not include data for adolescents living in the intervention locations (66 per cent of the sample). This is due to ongoing research and evaluation. The outstanding data will be released in a future edition, once publications focusing on evaluation of the Round 2 data are finalised.

Further information about the research site, sample selection, and data collection process is available in the documentation.

While work on the relationship between social media use and adolescent mental health has allowed for some progress, research in this area is still relatively new and shows mixed evidence. This is partly the consequence of a rapidly changing field, resulting in conceptualisation and measurement issues that hinder progress. Given the need for robust conceptualisation, the present study included five focus groups with a total of 26 adolescents aged 11-15 in Northwest England, to understand their experiences, motivations, and perceptions of social media use, relating to mental health and wellbeing. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to analyse the transcripts. We developed three themes and 14 sub-themes. Young people discussed key motivations for using social media (theme 1) relating to social connections, keeping up-to-date, mood management, the ‘default’ activity, freedom to express and develop myself, and fitting in. They shared some of the benefits and positive experiences of social media use (theme 2) such as feeling connected, validation and reassurance, and enjoyment and supporting a sense of self, and finally, they talked about negative experiences of social media use (theme 3), including platform risks, loss of control, social conflict, social comparison, and self-presentation management. Our findings have contributed to our understanding of the salient dimensions and language to inform the development of an adolescent social media experience measure related to mental health.

The Mental Health of Children and Young People Surveys (MHCYP) series provides data about the mental health of young people living in Great Britain.

The MHCYP was first carried out in 1999, capturing information on 5 to 15-year-olds. It was conducted by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on behalf of the Department of Health (now known as the Department of Health and Social Care, or DHSC), The Scottish Health Executive and the National Assembly for Wales. The following survey in the series was conducted in 2002 and focused on children looked after by their local authority. The third survey was conducted in 2004 and collected information from 5 to 16-year-olds. Follow-ups to this survey were conducted after 6 months and again after 3 years.

NHS Digital commissioned the 2017 survey on behalf of the DHSC. It collected information on 2 to 19-year-olds living in England. The survey was carried out by a consortium led by NatCen Social Research, which included the ONS and Youth In Mind.

The MHCYP 2020 survey was a Wave 1 follow-up to the 2017 survey and was conducted under the COVID-19 Public Health Directions 2020, as directed by the then Secretary of State for Health. The Wave 2 follow-up was conducted in 2021, and Wave 3 in 2022.

Further information can be found on the NHS Digital Mental Health of Children and Young People Surveys webpage.

A similar series covering adults, the Adult Surveys of Psychiatric Morbidity, is also commissioned by NHS Digital.

In June 2023 in the United Kingdom, there were approximately *** million users of Meta's Facebook aged between 13 and 17 years. Additionally, Facebook Messenger had a total of *** thousand users in the UK belonging to this age group. Overall, Meta's Instagram had over *** million UK teenage users the platform in June 2023, accounting for around **** percent of the platform's audience in the country.

The primary purpose of this survey was to produce prevalence rates of the three main childhood mental disorders: conduct disorder, hyperactivity and emotional disorders (and their comorbidity) in England and Wales.

Source agency: Office for National Statistics

Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: The Mental Health of Children and Adolescents in Great Britain

According to a 2023 survey conducted in the United Kingdom, 48 percent of social media users aged between 16 and 18 years reported feeling addicted to social media. Feelings of addiction were higher amongst female teens than male teens, with 57 percent of girls in the UK saying they thought they were addicted to online platforms. In general, social media can be difficult for teens to navigate, partly due to pressure to create the perfect image or partake in online challenges.

This report presents findings from the third (wave 3) in a series of follow up reports to the 2017 Mental Health of Children and Young People (MHCYP) survey, conducted in 2022. The sample includes 2,866 of the children and young people who took part in the MHCYP 2017 survey. The mental health of children and young people aged 7 to 24 years living in England in 2022 is examined, as well as their household circumstances, and their experiences of education, employment and services and of life in their families and communities. Comparisons are made with 2017, 2020 (wave 1) and 2021 (wave 2), where possible, to monitor changes over time.

United Kingdom UK: Adolescent Fertility Rate: Births per 1000 Women Aged 15-19 data was reported at 13.547 Ratio in 2016. This records a decrease from the previous number of 14.596 Ratio for 2015. United Kingdom UK: Adolescent Fertility Rate: Births per 1000 Women Aged 15-19 data is updated yearly, averaging 30.317 Ratio from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2016, with 57 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 88.785 Ratio in 1962 and a record low of 13.547 Ratio in 2016. United Kingdom UK: Adolescent Fertility Rate: Births per 1000 Women Aged 15-19 data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United Kingdom – Table UK.World Bank.WDI: Health Statistics. Adolescent fertility rate is the number of births per 1,000 women ages 15-19.; ; United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects.; Weighted average;

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major disruptions to families' lives in many ways, including through lockdowns, social distancing, home learning requirements, and restrictions. This resulted in a rapidly changing situation where different pressures have arisen for children, young people and their families over time. Understanding the psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and young people, through the collection of high quality data and in a way that could directly inform policy, was set out as an immediate research priority in a Lancet position paper (Holmes et al., 2020) at the start of the pandemic. The Co-SPACE study was launched on 30th March 2020, a week after the first national lockdown was implemented in the UK, with the purpose of using the findings to inform resources and support for families. It was then extended in 2022 under the project on 'Learning from the trajectories of mental health challenges for children, young people and parents over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic' in collaboration with the CORONA x CODOMO project in Japan (run by Dr Naho Morisaki at the National Center for Child Health and Development).

The Co-SPACE project aimed to:

track participating children and young people’s mental health throughout the COVID-19 crisis,

identify what protects children and young people from deteriorating mental health (over time, and at particular stress points),

determine how this varies according to child, family and environmental characteristics.

The Co-SPACE study, overall, involved an online longitudinal survey completed monthly from March 2020 to July 2021 by (i) UK-based parents/carers of children and young people (aged 4-16 years, at the start of the study), and (ii) their children (if aged 11-16 years, at the start of the study). Additional, longer-term follow-ups were then completed 6-monthly in March/April 2022, October 2022, and March/April 2023 by parents who took part in the original Co-SPACE survey. To develop a richer understanding of people’s experiences, qualitative interviews were also conducted with parents/carers, young people, and people who work with them. The current data available includes parent/carer reported survey data only.

The study was designed and conducted with rapid and meaningful stakeholder involvement, including through in-depth discussion with advisory groups of experts, young people, and parents/carers. Parent/carer and young people's involvement was facilitated through the UKRI Emerging Minds Research Network Plus.

In addition to the Principal Investigators (PW, CC, & SS), contributors to the study were as follows: Praveetha Patalay, UCL; Helen Dodd, University of Exeter; Pete Lawrence, University of Southampton; Simona Skripkauskaite, University of Oxford; Samantha Pearcey, University of Oxford; Adrienne Shum, University of Oxford; Amy McCall, University of Oxford; Olly Robertson, University of Oxford; Bettina Moltrecht, UCL; Eoin McElroy, Ulster University; Lowrie Hilladakis (nee Burgess), University of Oxford; Ning Ding, University of Oxford; Martha Oakes, University of Oxford; Naho Morisaki, National Center for Child Health and Development .

Further information, including research reports, are available from the Co-SPACE project website.

Latest edition information

For the second edition (January 2025), the study has been updated to include three new waves of data collection conducted between March 2022 and March 2023. The data and documentation files have been replaced with new versions.

The Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Covid-19 Phone Survey, 2020-2021 was designed to follow up with cohorts of adolescents in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Jordan to learn about household and adolescent experiences of the pandemic. The survey also includes a cross-sectional sample of adolescents in the State of Palestine. The survey was conducted over two rounds, in mid-2020 (Covid-R1) and late-2020 through early 2021 (Covid-R2). The survey aims to understand the knowledge, attitudes, and behavioural changes related to the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as effects of the pandemic on adolescents participating in the GAGE survey and their primary female caregivers.

According to a survey conducted in the United Kingdom in 2024, the BBC was the most popular news source among people aged 12 to 15 years, with a reach of ** percent. This however was the net figure for the BBC as a whole including all channels and platforms from BBC One and BBC Two to the company's CBBC site and the BBC app. The social media app TikTok followed in the ranking with a reach of ** percent, followed closely by YouTube and Instagram, which each reached *** in four young teenagers in the United Kingdom.

Adolescents out of school (% of lower secondary school age) in United Kingdom was reported at 0.91623 % in 2022, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. United Kingdom - Adolescents out of school (% of lower secondary school age) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on August of 2025.

Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Ethiopia Round 3, 2021-2022 extends the GAGE quantitative research in Ethiopia for a third round. A sample of more than 8,500 adolescent boys and girls was sought, including nearly 6,200 adolescents surveyed in an earlier round as well as approximately 2,300 new adolescents. The main purpose of this survey was to gather information on the lives of Ethiopian adolescents living in urban and rural locations in the Amhara and Oromiya regions, to understand their changing lives and challenges. At the time of data collection, adolescents were primarily aged 11-20. The sample includes both randomly and purposefully sampled adolescents. The current data release includes information for the subset of individuals who are not part of an ongoing randomised evaluation of adolescent-centric programming. A total of 2,770 adolescent surveys are included in the current release.

Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Nepal Baseline, 2017-2018 includes a sample of 1,687 girls aged 12-14 years in 40 randomly selected clusters within two districts in Nepal. This sample includes 580 girls enrolled in Grade 6 and followed to Grade 8 who will help to evaluate the impact of the Room to Read (RtR) Girl's Education Program (GEP). The research sample, composed of both randomly sampled and purposely selected adolescents and their families, was recruited during 2017 and 2018 in the regions of Nuwakot and Tanahun in Nepal. Further information about the research site, sample selection, and data collection process is available in the documentation.

Graph and download economic data for Adolescent Fertility Rate for the United Kingdom (SPADOTFRTGBR) from 1960 to 2023 about 15 to 19 years, fertility, United Kingdom, and rate.

This booklet presents analysis of self-harm reports by parents about their children aged 5-15 and by the children themselves aged 11-15. Source agency: Office for National Statistics Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics Language: English Alternative title: Children and adolescents who try to harm, hurt or kill themselves

As of 2022, ** percent of teenagers aged 17 years in the United Kingdom had a social media profile, while ** percent of teens aged 16 years owned a profile. Over *** in *** children aged three years had a social media profile, and similar figures were seen for those aged four and five years of age. The majority of social media platforms do not allow users under the age of 13 to have a profile on their services.