Bosnia and Herzegovina's share of youth not in education, employment or training, total (% of youth population) was 14.48% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 13.87 percentage points from 28.35% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 14.48% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 21.81% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 28.35% | 2015 |
| Highest | 35.49% | 2006 |
| Lowest | 14.31% | 2024 |
| Average since 2016 | 20.13% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 32.45% | 2001 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Bosnia and Herzegovina's share of youth not in education, employment or training, total (% of youth population) rose 0.17 percentage points on 2024 (from 14.31% to 14.48%).
Across the 18 yearly changes before that (2007 to 2024), the average change was −1.18 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.71 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.8 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 2.1 percentage points in 2010 and the biggest yearly fall was 4.98 percentage points in 2008. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is downward, about 1.47 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 98% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
A straight-line projection, tested first
Extending that straight line gives about 9.71% for 2028. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2023 to 2025 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 1.91%, against 2.7% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
How it compares
In 2025, Bosnia and Herzegovina had the 25th highest value of the 69 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 14.48% | 2025 |
| Europe & Central Asia | 11.38% | 2025 |
Closest to Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 2025 ranking
What this measures
The share of youth not in education, employment or training (also known as “the NEET rate”) conveys the number of young persons not in education, employment or training as a percentage of the total youth population. Youth not in education are those who were neither enrolled in school nor in a formal training program (e.g. vocational training). For the purposes of this indicator, youth is defined as all persons between the ages of 15 and 24 (inclusive).
Limitations: When differing from international standards, the operational criteria used to define employment and the participation in education or training will naturally affect the comparability of the resulting statistics, as will the coverage of the source of statistics (geographical coverage, population coverage, age coverage, etc.). NEET rates are calculated preferably for youth defined as persons aged 15 to 24, but when studying these rates it is important to keep in mind that not all persons complete their education by the age of 24.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 21 values
| Year | Share of youth not in education, employment or training, total (% of youth population) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 14.48 |
| 2024 | 14.31 |
| 2023 | 15.98 |
| 2022 | 17.62 |
| 2021 | 19.3 |
| 2020 | 21.81 |
| 2019 | 22.6 |
| 2018 | 22.61 |
| 2017 | 25.51 |
| 2016 | 27.09 |
Share of youth not in education, employment or training, total (% of youth population) in nearby economies
More social protection & labor data for Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Net migration — -6,994 (2025)
- Labor force participation rate for ages 15-24, female (%) (modeled ILO estimate) — 18.44% (2025)
- Labor force participation rate for ages 15-24, male (%) (modeled ILO estimate) — 32.97% (2025)
- Labor force participation rate for ages 15-24, total (%) (modeled ILO estimate) — 26% (2025)
- Labor force participation rate, female (% of female population ages 15-64) (modeled ILO estimate) — 52.5% (2025)
- Labor force participation rate, male (% of male population ages 15-64) (modeled ILO estimate) — 73.6% (2025)
- Labor force participation rate, total (% of total population ages 15-64) (modeled ILO estimate)
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- What is Bosnia and Herzegovina's share of youth not in education, employment or training, total (% of youth population)?
- 14.48% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SL.UEM.NEET.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Labour Force Statistics database (LFS), International Labour Organization (ILO), uri: https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/bulk/, publisher: ILOSTAT, type: external database, date accessed: September 28, 2026 Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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