What youth unemployment is
Youth unemployment, ages 15–24, World Bank SL.UEM.1524.ZS (ILO modelled). Ranked by each economy’s latest published year.
Source: World Bank Open Data. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (terms).
Taiwan
Taiwan — Youth
TW desk: Taiwan first (IMF WEO headline rate); Korea, United States, euro area, United Kingdom and Australia alongside.
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World Bank Open Data does not publish this series for Taiwan. Related-country figures below use the same ILO modelled estimates as the all-countries pages.
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 6.70% |
| 2024 | 6.43% |
| 2023 | 5.41% |
| 2022 | 6.64% |
| 2021 | 8.05% |
| 2020 | 10.14% |
| 2019 | 9.83% |
| 2018 | 10.12% |
| 2017 | 9.78% |
| 2016 | 10.14% |
| 2015 | 9.90% |
| 2014 | 8.59% |
| 2013 | 8.94% |
| 2012 | 7.74% |
| 2011 | 8.30% |
| 2010 | 8.54% |
| 2009 | 9.22% |
| 2008 | 8.65% |
| 2007 | 7.85% |
| 2006 | 8.92% |
| 2005 | 9.32% |
| 2004 | 9.80% |
| 2003 | 9.42% |
| 2002 | 7.90% |
#CountryYouthChangeYear
71Euro area16.34%−0.09 pp202574China15.79%+0.75 pp2025
81United Kingdom14.65%+0.33 pp2025120Australia9.61%+0.20 pp2025126United States9.34%+0.42 pp2025148Singapore6.78%+0.45 pp2025150Korea, Rep.6.70%+0.26 pp2025170Japan3.90%−0.03 pp2025
Reading this series
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.
About this desk
The World Bank does not publish Taiwan on any of these labour series, and the IMF World Economic Outlook carries only a headline unemployment rate for it. This desk therefore shows a Taiwanese value on the unemployment page alone; the youth, female, male, participation and employment pages present related economies only. That set is Korea, the United States, Japan, China, the euro area, the United Kingdom, Australia and Singapore, as far as each source provides them. The build does not present a Taiwanese figure the sources have not published.
The values are the same World Bank ILO modelled estimates used on the all-countries pages, filtered to this comparison set. Use the Country selector to move to a desk with its own series, the Chart and Table tabs for two views, and the range buttons to shorten the window. Indicator codes and licences are named on each page.