Question to Department for Work and Pensions

The information requested is published and available at:

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The estimated youth unemployment levels can be found by selecting “Query data” on the NOMIS home page and selecting “Annual Population Survey/Labour Force Survey” and then “annual population survey – regional – labour market status by age (Dec 2004 to Dec 2025)” in the lists of data sources. The “Geography” and “Date” menus will need to be set accordingly. The age needs to be set to “16-24” and the Labour Market Status needs to be set to “Unemployed”. Then click “Download Data”.

The latest data, for the year January 2025 to December 2025, is given in the table below.

Youth Unemployment aged 16 to 24 (Jan 2025-Dec 2025)
	Rate	Level
North East	14.2	22,800
North West	11.9	54,000
Yorkshire and The Humber	15.5	56,900
East Midlands	16.4	50,500
West Midlands	15.7	62,500
East	12.6	47,800
London	18.2	86,100
South East	11.5	64,200
South West	9.3	35,400
Wales	15.4	30,400
Scotland	11.8	41,600
Northern Ireland	7.4	8,800

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