Youth unemployment in two large regions moved in opposite directions
East Asia and Pacific: 9.7% → 12.5% in 2019–2025. Latin America and Caribbean: 17.4% → 12.2%. A wide gap has narrowed to similar estimates.
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East Asia and Pacific: 9.7% → 12.5% in 2019–2025. Latin America and Caribbean: 17.4% → 12.2%. A wide gap has narrowed to similar estimates.
Bars show shares of the selected groups. Each period is labelled; the scale starts at zero.
- East Asia · 2019 %
2019: 9.7
- East Asia · 2025 %
2025: 12.5
- Latin America · 2019 %
2019: 17.4
- Latin America · 2025 %
2025: 12.2
ILO via World Bank, SL.UEM.1524.ZS. Publisher regional aggregates EAS and LCN, ages 15–24, share of the labour force. Not an arithmetic average of selected country rates. Full region names are in the text.
East Asia and Pacific includes China but is not China alone. Similar point estimates do not establish statistically identical labour markets. Modelled series can be revised.
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