Ireland
IE desk: Ireland first; euro area, United Kingdom and United States alongside.
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As of 2025 | % of labour force ages 15–24
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 10.49% |
| 2024 | 10.44% |
| 2023 | 10.16% |
| 2022 | 9.39% |
| 2021 | 15.61% |
| 2020 | 15.26% |
| 2019 | 12.46% |
| 2018 | 13.76% |
| 2017 | 14.40% |
| 2016 | 16.80% |
| 2015 | 20.23% |
| 2014 | 23.42% |
| 2013 | 26.73% |
| 2012 | 30.79% |
| 2011 | 29.58% |
| 2010 | 28.16% |
| 2009 | 24.51% |
| 2008 | 13.47% |
| 2007 | 9.16% |
| 2006 | 7.91% |
| 2005 | 7.82% |
| 2004 | 7.87% |
| 2003 | 7.71% |
| 2002 | 7.36% |
Youth unemployment is the same ILO definition restricted to ages 15–24 (SL.UEM.1524.ZS). It is usually higher than the all-ages rate. Latest: 10.49% in 2025.
It is a rate among young people in the labour force, not a share of all young people. From 1991 to 2025 (35 years): mean 15.48%, median 14.40%; low 5.86% (2001), high 30.79% (2012).
Source: World Bank Open Data. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (terms).
This series is the unemployment rate restricted to people aged 15 to 24: those without work, available for and actively seeking it, as a share of the labour force in that age band. The source is World Bank Open Data indicator SL.UEM.1524.ZS, an ILO modelled estimate using the same unemployment definition as the all-ages series. It is a rate among young people in the labour force, not a share of all young people: a country with few teenagers looking for work can post a high youth rate while most of its young population is in education.
The chart plots annual observations for the economies you select; the range buttons shorten the period and the legend or table adds and removes lines. The ranked ledger lists each economy’s latest published year, and those years differ. Because the series is modelled from national surveys and censuses, values are revised when inputs change, so a rebuild can print a different past reading. Youth rates are usually higher than all-ages rates.
The Ireland desk places Ireland first and shows the euro area, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany and France alongside it, as far as each source publishes them. It republishes the same World Bank ILO modelled estimates as the all-countries pages, filtered to this desk; the build does not recompute anything. Taiwan is shown only on the headline unemployment page, where the rate is filled from the IMF World Economic Outlook because the World Bank does not publish it.
Move between desks with the Country selector, read the same numbers through the Chart and Table tabs, and shorten the period with the range buttons. Every page prints its indicator, source and licence. Ireland’s figures are national series in the World Bank collection, separate from the euro-area aggregate shown beside them. Where the source does not publish an Irish value, the related economies are shown.