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Thursday, 28.03.2024, 23:40
Youth unemployment in Latvia in 2016 highest in Baltics
The Eurostat figures show that 17.3% of young people aged 15-24 years were jobless in Latvia in 2016, growing by 1 percentage points (ppt )from 2015.
In Lithuania, this rate was 14.5% in contrast to 16.3% a year ago, but in Estonia 13.4% of youngsters were unemployed, up 0.3 ppt from 2015.
The EU average for youth unemployment in 2013 was 18.7 of young people between 15 and 24 years of age, down 1.6 ppt from 2015.
The lowest rates were notably recorded in German regions, in particular Schwaben (4.3%), Oberbayern and Tubingen (both 4.6%), Weser-Ems (5.6%) and Freiburg (6%), and the highest in Ciudad Autonoma de Melilla (69.1%) and Ciudad Autonoma de Ceuta (63.3%) in Spain. In more than three-quarters of the EU regions, the unemployment rate for young people was at least twice that of total unemployment.
Due to their small size, the Baltic states are treated as regions in the Eurostat data.