Uruguay's share of youth not in education, employment or training, total (% of youth population) (modeled ILO estimate) was 15.15% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 3.59 percentage points from 18.73% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 15.15% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 17.11% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 18.73% | 2015 |
| Highest | 20.55% | 2006 |
| Lowest | 14.27% | 2022 |
| Average since 2016 | 16.36% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 19.25% | 2005 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Uruguay's share of youth not in education, employment or training, total (% of youth population) (modeled ILO estimate) rose 0.09 percentage points on 2024 (from 15.05% to 15.15%).
Across the 19 yearly changes before that (2006 to 2024), the average change was −0.22 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.8 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.4 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 1.3 percentage points in 2006 and the biggest yearly fall was 2.17 percentage points in 2021. 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 0.48 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 79% 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 13.12% 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 0.33%, against 0.75% 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, Uruguay had the 108th highest value of the 182 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Uruguay | 15.15% | 2025 |
| World | 19.79% | 2025 |
| Latin America & Caribbean | 19.3% | 2025 |
| High income | 10.88% | 2025 |
Closest to Uruguay in the 2025 ranking
- Kuwait — 105th of 182: 15.65%
- Bangladesh — 106th of 182: 15.6%
- Israel — 107th of 182: 15.3%
- Bahamas, The — 109th of 182: 15.03%
- Trinidad and Tobago — 110th of 182: 14.86%
- Panama — 111th of 182: 14.82%
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) (modeled ILO estimate) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 15.15 |
| 2024 | 15.05 |
| 2023 | 14.86 |
| 2022 | 14.27 |
| 2021 | 14.94 |
| 2020 | 17.11 |
| 2019 | 17.69 |
| 2018 | 17.95 |
| 2017 | 17.87 |
| 2016 | 18.68 |
Share of youth not in education, employment or training, total (% of youth population) (modeled ILO estimate) in nearby economies
More social protection & labor data for Uruguay
- Net migration — -1,338 (2025)
- Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum — 3,195 (2025)
- Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (national estimate) — 7.34% (2025)
- Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of origin — 126 (2025)
- Unemployment, female (% of female labor force) (national estimate) — 8.86% (2025)
- Unemployment, male (% of male labor force) (national estimate) — 6.04% (2025)
- Labor force participation rate for ages 15-24, female (%) (national estimate) — 41.62% (2025)
- Labor force participation rate for ages 15-24, male (%) (national estimate)
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Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SL.UEM.NEET.ME.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: ILO Modelled Estimates database (ILOEST), International Labour Organization (ILO), uri: https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/bulk/, publisher: ILOSTAT, type: external database, date accessed: January 17, 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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