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.
Main points
- An estimated 12.8% of all people aged 16 to 24 years in the UK were not in education, employment or training (NEET) in October to December 2025. This is up 0.1 percentage points compared with July to September 2025, and down 0.4 percentage points on the year.
- An estimated 13.3% of young men (down 0.1 percentage points on the quarter) and 12.2% of young women (up 0.3 percentage points on the quarter) were NEET.
- There were 957,000 young people who were NEET in total, an increase of 11,000 on the quarter. This increase was largely caused by young women, with an increase of 13,000 on the quarter, while young men saw a decrease of 2,000. Of the total number of young people who were NEET, 510,000 were young men and 448,000 were young women.
- The total number of people aged 18 to 24 years who were NEET was 891,000, up 11,000 on the previous quarter.
- The percentage of all those aged 18 to 24 years who were NEET was 15.2%, which again was up 0.1 percentage points on the quarter and down 0.3 percentage points on the year.
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