Youth inactivity presents the share of young people not in employment, education or training (NEET).
Young people in education include those attending part-time or full-time education, but exclude those in non-formal education and in educational activities of very short duration.
Employment is defined according to the ILO Guidelines and covers all those who have been in paid work for at least one hour in the reference week of the survey or were temporarily absent from such work. Young people who are NEET are at risk of becoming socially excluded, with income below the poverty-line and without the skills to improve their economic situation.
↑ % in same age group - [Source OECD]
Despite a significant decrease of around 15 percentage points in the proportion of young people neither employed nor in education or training (NEET) between 2009 and 2012, Turkey still has the highest proportion of NEETs among 20-24 year-olds across OECD countries. Southern Europe countries -Italy, Greece and Spain are hardly recovering from the effects of the 2007/08 financial crisis.