The Top 5 Countries with the Most Youth Who Neither Work nor Study

  Country % Youth
(not studying or working)
% Men % Women
1 Italy 33.9% 33.9% 33.8%
2 Turkey 33.2% 18.3% 47.6%
3 Greece 28.1% 27.6% 28.6%
4 Spain 27.2% 28.3% 26.1%
5 Mexico 25.3% 9.8% 40.5%
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Sources:  OECD. (2016): “Youth not in employment, education or training (NEET)"

List Notes: Data is the top 5 countries with the highest percentage of youth between the ages of 20 to 24 neither studying, in training, nor working. Data is for the year 2015 which is the latest available as of September 2016. Youth inactivity presents the share of young people not in employment, education or training (NEET), as a percentage of the total number of young people in the corresponding age group.
Countries with the Most Youth Who Neither Work nor Study

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