PT · 2016 · tesem070
Youth employment rate (age group 20-29)
Portugal, 2016
In 2016, Portugal's youth employment rate (age group 20-29) increased by 2.1% compared to 2015, reaching 57.7.
Portugal accounts for 95.5% of the EU-27 total of 60.4.
Portugal ranks 20th 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 5.1% (from 60.8 in 2011).
Source: Eurostat dataset tesem070, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.