IE · 2010 · tesem070
Youth employment rate (age group 20-29)
Ireland, 2010
In 2010, Ireland's youth employment rate (age group 20-29) decreased by 7.0% compared to 2009, reaching 63.7.
Ireland accounts for 105.6% of the EU-27 total of 60.3.
Ireland ranks 9th 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 15.9% (from 75.7 in 2005).
Source: Eurostat dataset tesem070, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.