Youth Unemployment
The unemployment rate for 16 to 24 year olds was 21.0% for May to July 2013, up 0.5 percentage points from February to April 2013.
Overall picture
For May to July 2013, compared with February to April 2013, there was a rise in the number of employed people, and falls in the number of people who were unemployed and the number of economically inactive people aged from 16 to 64. Comparing May to July 2013 with a year earlier:
- there were 275,000 more people in employment,
- there were 105,000 fewer unemployed people, and
- there were 52,000 fewer economically inactive people aged from 16 to 64.
A Widening Jobs Gap
The number of people aged 16 and over in employment was 328,000 higher in May to July 2013 compared with May to July 2008, around the time when the 2008-09 downturn started. However the number of people in employment has increased more slowly than the increase in the population. The percentage of people aged from 16 to 64 who were in work for May to July 2013 (the employment rate) was 71.6% – lower than the figure of 72.8% for May to July 2008.
For May to July 2013:
- There were 3.60 million 16 to 24 year olds in employment, down 77,000 from February to April 2013.
- There were 2.66 million economically inactive 16 to 24 year olds (75% of whom were in full-time education), up 53,000 from February to April 2013.
- There were 960,000 unemployed 16 to 24 year olds, up 9,000 from February to April 2013.
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