IT · 2017 · tesem070
Youth employment rate (age group 20-29)
Italy, 2017
In 2017, Italy's youth employment rate (age group 20-29) increased by 1.4% compared to 2016, reaching 42.7.
Italy accounts for 69.1% of the EU-27 total of 61.8.
Italy ranks 26th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 5.3% (from 45.1 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset tesem070, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.