Eurostat estimated that for the last three months of 2011, the ratio of youth unemployed was 19%, the highest in the EU (9.1%) and ahead of Greece (13%), UK (12.4%), Portugal (11.7%), and Germany (4.5%).
During his morning darshan in Jammu, there are numerous job-seekers, a handful of the estimated 150, 000 educated, unemployed youth in the state.
For these reasons some argue that youth unemployment is better and more accurately represented by using a ratio, calculated as the share of unemployed, as a percentage of the whole youth population.
Ms Parrott also welcome the announcement of the Youth Contract Scheme which will provide help for young unemployed people.
In a report, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said the worst affected were youth: nearly 13% of the under 24s were unemployed.
They are the 90% of the more than 12 million Club Med unemployed youth.
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"These discouraged youth are not counted among the unemployed, " it adds.
Disaffected youth under the age of 18 who are unemployed and feel socially, economically and politically excluded increasingly resort to violence including through martial arts gangs to lash out or cope with their frustrations.
Some of them genuinely believe that they have a mission to fight the corruption that is rampant on the government side of the lines, and the decade of chaos that has engulfed Sierra Leone makes recruiting unemployed youth into their ranks a relatively easy task.
In Pakistan, 32% of the total youth is illiterate, where 9.5 % are unemployed and only 6 % are equipped with technical skills.
The UNESCO Iraq Office in cooperation with the Iraqi Ministry of Education, launched in June 2011 a call for proposal for the establishment of community learning centers targeting vulnerable illiterates including women and unemployed youth in Iraq.
Tescan closed down in 1981 and, after a short period of unemployment, Mr Ashdown got a job as a youth worker with Dorset County Council Youth Service, where he was responsible for initiatives to help the young unemployed.
Terry, currently unemployed and a keen rapper in his spare time, took up the voluntary post of youth mayor for Bridgend after spending time as a member of the youth council.
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Youth employment is the lowest since the 1950s, and for the first time more unemployed people have college experience than not.
Proposed activities included the provision of basic life skills along with literacy programs that will enhance work opportunities for unemployed illiterate youth and vulnerable communities throughout Iraq.
It will provide states with support for summer jobs programs for low-income youth, including the 15.6 percent of women ages 16 to 24 who are unemployed.
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