Youth unemployment in Scotland

From the Report on Draft Budget 2014-15


9. Recent labour market statistics published by the Scottish Government show that 53.2% of young people in Scotland are in employment, and around one in five (20.5%) young people in Scotland (aged 16-24) is officially unemployed. We requested from SPICe trend data on comparative rates of youth employment and unemployment in Scotland and the UK. These data are shown in the table below—

	Youth Unemployment		Youth Employment
	Scotland	UK	Scotland	UK
July 2008 - June 2009	14.5%	16.9%	60.0%	54.5%
July 2009 - June 2010	18.2%	19.5%	55.6%	51.0%
July 2010 - June 2011	19.6%	19.8%	55.6%	50.3%
July 2011 - June 2012	21.4%	21.3%	53.7%	49.4%
July 2012 - June 2013	20.5%	20.7%	53.2%	49.7%

10. The rate of youth employment in Scotland has continually been higher than for the UK as a whole over the past five years. Youth unemployment in Scotland and the UK is far higher than unemployment among the working age population as a whole. Page 56 of the draft budget document notes that only eight out of the 28 EU countries have a lower youth unemployment rate than Scotland.

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