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Young people not in education, employment or training: record highs and lows

The extremes of young people not in education, employment or training as published by Department for Education, across the 26 periods held here (2000 to 2025). Each record is a published figure, not a computed one, and the scope is this series — not “ever”.

Highest published

16%2011

Lowest published

10.7%2021

The full series

Young people not in education, employment or training: 2000 to 2025LabourLabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour0%5%10%15%2000201020202000: 12.3% percent · published 4 August 20262001: 12.5% percent · published 4 August 20262002: 12.3% percent · published 4 August 20262003: 12.1% percent · published 4 August 20262004: 13.1% percent · published 4 August 20262005: 14.5% percent · published 4 August 20262006: 13.9% percent · published 4 August 20262007: 13% percent · published 4 August 20262008: 14.2% percent · published 4 August 20262009: 14.8% percent · published 4 August 20262010: 15.6% percent · published 4 August 20262011: 16% percent · published 4 August 20262012: 14.9% percent · published 4 August 20262013: 14.1% percent · published 4 August 20262014: 13.1% percent · published 4 August 20262015: 11.6% percent · published 4 August 20262016: 11.3% percent · published 4 August 20262017: 11% percent · published 4 August 20262018: 11.3% percent · published 4 August 20262019: 11.2% percent · published 4 August 20262020: 11.9% percent · published 4 August 20262021: 10.7% percent · published 4 August 20262022: 12.5% percent · published 4 August 20262023: 12.1% percent · published 4 August 20262024: 13.6% percent · published 4 August 20262025: 13.3% percent · published 4 August 2026
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What a record here is, and is not

A record is the extreme of the periods this site holds for the current series, at each period’s newest published release. Earlier series measured under different methods are not compared against it. Money is in cash terms: a record set years ago stands against the money of its own year.