IE · 2013 · tesem070
Youth employment rate (age group 20-29)
Ireland, 2013
In 2013, Ireland's youth employment rate (age group 20-29) increased by 3.6% compared to 2012, reaching 63.5.
Ireland accounts for 110.1% of the EU-27 total of 57.7.
Ireland ranks 8th 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 18.3% (from 77.7 in 2008).
Source: Eurostat dataset tesem070, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.