Youth unemployment rate by sex

In 2016, Ireland's youth unemployment rate by sex decreased by 16.8% compared to 2015, reaching 33.6.

Ireland accounts for 81.2% of the EU-27 total of 41.4.

Ireland ranks 17th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 43.2% (from 59.2 in 2011).

Source: Eurostat dataset tesem140, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.