Estimates of young people (aged 16 to 24 years) who are not in education, employment or training, by age and sex. These are official statistics in development.
An estimated 12.2% of all people aged 16 to 24 years in the UK were not in education, employment or training (NEET) in April to June 2024. This is up 0.9 percentage points compared with April to June 2023, and down 0.4 percentage points on the previous quarter.
An estimated 13.5% of young men (up 1.7 percentage points on the year) and 10.8% of young women (largely unchanged on the year) were NEET. There were 872,000 young people who were NEET in total, an increase of 74,000 on the year. This increase was driven by young men. Of the total number of young people who were NEET, 493,000 were young men and 379,000 were young women.
The total number of people aged 18 to 24 years who were NEET was 807,000, up 65,000 on the previous year.
The percentage of those aged 18 to 24 years who were NEET was 14.5%, which was up 1.1 percentage points on the year, and down 0.4 percentage points on the quarter.