{"id":449704,"date":"2026-05-28T16:24:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/449704\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:24:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:24:27","slug":"fewer-young-people-not-in-work-or-education-in-2025-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/449704\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer young people not in work or education in 2025 &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In 2025, the share of young people aged 15 to 29 <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Young_people_neither_in_employment_nor_in_education_and_training_(NEET)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">neither in employment nor in education or training<\/a> (NEET) in the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:European_Union_(EU)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EU<\/a> stood at 11.0%, down from 11.1% in 2024 and 15.2% in 2015. This brings the EU closer to achieving its goal of reducing NEET rates among young people to 9% by 2030, as set out in the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/op.europa.eu\/webpub\/empl\/european-pillar-of-social-rights\/en\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">European Pillar of Social Rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">The NEET rate among young people varied by age. Among the youngest (15-19 years), only 5.3% were NEET, while the rate more than doubled for those aged 20-24 (12.8%) and 25-29 (14.7%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">The lowest NEET rates for young people were registered in the Netherlands (5.3%), Sweden (5.9%) and Slovenia (7.6%). In contrast, the highest rates were in Romania (19.2%), Bulgaria (13.8%) and Greece (13.6%).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/d\/products-eurostat-news\/young-people-neet-2015-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Young people neither in employment nor in education and training, 2015 and 2025  (% of young people aged 15-29). Chart. See link to the full dataset below.\" data-fileentryid=\"23718291\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/young-people-neet-2015-2025.jpg\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">Source dataset:<a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/9d3dc77d-86cb-4a3c-948d-1d2ffbce30d0?lang=en&amp;createdAt=2026-05-18T15:23:40Z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> edat_lfse_20<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Between 2015 and 2025, the NEET rate decreased in 22 of 27 EU countries. The largest drops were registered in Italy (12.4 <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Percentage_point\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">percentage points<\/a> (pp), from 25.7% to 13.3%), Greece (10.5 pp, from 24.1% to 13.6%) and Croatia (9.0 pp, from 19.8% to 10.8%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2025, the share of young people aged 15 to 29 neither in employment nor in education or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,6172,219,8955,111,139,69,8957],"class_list":["post-449704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-data-driven-news","tag-economy","tag-edc","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-population-and-social-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}