IE · 2011 · tesem070
Youth employment rate (age group 20-29)
Ireland, 2011
In 2011, Ireland's youth employment rate (age group 20-29) decreased by 3.8% compared to 2010, reaching 61.3.
Ireland accounts for 102.5% of the EU-27 total of 59.8.
Ireland ranks 11th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 20.5% (from 77.1 in 2006).
Source: Eurostat dataset tesem070, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.