IE · 2014 · tesem070
Youth employment rate (age group 20-29)
Ireland, 2014
In 2014, Ireland's youth employment rate (age group 20-29) increased by 1.3% compared to 2013, reaching 64.3.
Ireland accounts for 110.5% of the EU-27 total of 58.2.
Ireland ranks 10th 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 6.1% (from 68.5 in 2009).
Source: Eurostat dataset tesem070, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.