Estimates from January to March 2025 of young people (aged 16 to 24 years) who are not in education, employment or training, by age and sex.
An estimated 12.5% of all people aged 16 to 24 years in the UK were not in education, employment or training (NEET) in January to March 2025. This is down 0.3 percentage points compared with January to March 2024 and down 0.9 percentage points on the previous quarter.
An estimated 13.2% of young men (down 1.0 percentage points on the year) and 11.7% of young women (up 0.3 percentage points on the year) were NEET.
There were 923,000 young people who were NEET in total, a decrease of 7,000 on the year. This decrease was because of a decrease of 26,000 young men on the year, while young women saw an increase of 19,000 on the year. Of the total number of young people who were NEET, 498,000 were young men and 425,000 were young women.
The total number of people aged 18 to 24 years who were NEET was 854,000, a decrease of 4,000 on the previous year.
The percentage of those aged 18 to 24 years who were NEET was 14.8%, which was down 0.3 percentage points on the year but was down 1.0 percentage points on the quarter.