Youth unemployment rate in selected world regions 2023

Globally, the youth unemployment rate (of those aged 15-24 years) fluctuated between 13 and 15.5 percent in each year between 2000 and 2019, before it rose above 18 percent in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Broken down by global region, however, there was much more variation. The Arab World was the region with the highest rate of youth unemployment in each year of the previous two decades, while East Asia and the Pacific generally had the lowest youth unemployment rate. Additionally there was a notable increase in regions with the most advanced economies after 2008, as these were the most severely hit during the Great Recession.

在全球范围内，15至24岁年龄段青年的失业率在2000年至2019年间每年波动于13%至15.5%之间，然而，由于2020年新冠疫情的爆发，失业率上升至18%以上。然而，若按全球区域细分，失业率的变化则更为显著。在过去二十年中的每年，阿拉伯世界均成为青年失业率最高的地区，而东亚及太平洋地区通常拥有最低的青年失业率。此外，自2008年金融危机之后，发达经济体的区域失业率亦有所上升，这主要是因为这些地区在此次大衰退中受到的影响最为严重。