South Korea Youth Unemployment
South Korea youth unemployment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 6.70%.
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South Korea · youth unemployment data as percent of GDP.
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
South Korea recorded 6.70% for Youth Unemployment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.26 percentage points, from 6.43% to 6.70%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (8.32%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 5.41% in 2023 and the high was 10.15% in 2016.