Youth Employment Initiative

Author: Eulalia Claros, Members’ Research ServiceEuropean Parliamentary Research Service140795REV1For more information on these figures and their sources, see page 2.

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Less than 15%From 15% to less than 25%From 25% to less than 35%From 35% up to 50%More than 50%

Youth unemployment rate 2012

Eligible regions

Data not available

spain:

slovenia:

bulgaria:

portugal:

Infographic - At a glance

Hainaut Province, Liège Province, Ré-gion Bruxelles Capitale

Severen tsentrale, Severoiztochen, Severozapaden, Yugoiztochen, Yuzhen

tsentralen

Anatoliki Makedonia - Thraki, Attiki, Dytiki Ellada, Dytiki Makedonia, Ipeiros, Kentriki Makedonia, Kriti, Notio Aigaio, Peloponnisos, Sterea Ellada, Thessalia,

Voreio Aigaio

Andalucía, Aragón, Canarias, Cantabria, Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalunya, Ciudad Autónoma de Ceuta, Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla, Comunidad de Madrid, Comunidad Foral de Nav-arra, Comunidad Valenciana, Extremadura, Galicia, Illes Balears, La Rioja, País Vasco, Principado de Asturias, Región de Murcia

Aquitaine, Auvergne, Centre, Cham-pagne-Ardenne, Haute Normandie, Languedoc-Roussillon, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Picardie, Mayotte, Guadeloupe, Guyane, Martinique, Réunion

Dél-Alföld, Dél-Dunántúl, Észak-Alföld, Észak-Magyarország

Border, Midland and Western, Southern and Eastern

Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia,

Lazio, Liguria, Lombardia, Marche, Molise, Piemonte, Puglia, Sardegna, Sicilia, Toscana,

Umbria, Valle d’Aosta/Vallée d’Aoste

Dolnoslaskie, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Lódzkie, Lubelskie, Lubuskie, Malopolskie,

Podkarpackie, Swietokrzyskie, Warmin-sko-Mazurskie, Zachodniopomorskie

Alentejo, Algarve, Centro (PT), Lisboa, Norte, Região Autonoma da Madeira, Região Autonoma dos Açores

Centru, Sud–Muntenia, Sud-Est

Mellersta Norrland, Norra Mellansverige, Sydsverige

Stredné Slovensko, Východne Slovensko, Západné Slovensko

Inner London, Merseyside, Souh West-ern Scotland, Tees Valley and Durham, West Midlands

Vzhodna Slovenia

italy: greece:

croatia:

romania:

slovakia:

hungary:

poland:

france:

united kingdom:

ireland:

belgium:

sweden:

latvia, lithuania, cyprus

czech republic:Severozápad

Jadranska Hrvatska, Kontinentalna Hrvatska

Item Data sourceYouth Employment Initiative- Eligible Regions 2014-5

NUTS level 2 regions that had youth unemployment rates of more than 25% in 2012, and regions with youth unemployment rates of more than 20% in 2012 in Member States where youth unemployment rate had increased by more than 30% in 2012.

Youth unemployment rates Eurostat. Youth unemployment rate shows unemployed persons aged 15 to 24 as a percentage of the active population. Reliability of data for the regions below is flagged as low: Belgium: provinces of West-Vlaanderen, Brabant Wallon, Luxembourg and Namur. Bulgaria: Severozapaden. Germany: Oberpfalz, Oberfranken, Bremen, Gießen, Kassel, Trier and Leipzig. Greece: Ionia Nisia and Voreio Aigaio. Spain: Ceuta, Melilla. France: Limousin, Corse, Guyane. Italy: Valle d’Aosta/Vallée d’Aoste. Neder-lands: Zeeland. Austria: Burgenland, Kärnten, Steiermark, Salzburg, Tirol and Vorarlberg. Poland: Podlaskie, Libuskie, Opolskie and Warminski-Mazurskie. Finland: Åland. United Kingdom: Cumbria, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, North Eastern Scotland and Highlands and Islands.

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