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Share of youth not in education, employment or training, total (% of youth population): Vietnam, 2007–2024
- Latest (2024)
- 10.3 %
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- SL.UEM.NEET.ZS
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
The share of youth not in education, employment or training (also known as “the NEET rate”) conveys the number of young persons not in education, employment or training as a percentage of the total youth population. Youth not in education are those who were neither enrolled in school nor in a formal training program (e.g. vocational training). For the purposes of this indicator, youth is defined as all persons between the ages of 15 and 24 (inclusive).
What the series shows
The series runs from 2007 to 2024 (17 years of data). It moved from 10.6 to 10.3 %, a change of -3.3%. The highest value was 14.9 in 2021 and the lowest 8.2 in 2010. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 8 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (%) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 10.3 |
| 2023 | 10.8 |
| 2022 | 11.1 |
| 2021 | 14.9 |
| 2020 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 13.2 |
| 2018 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 9.7 |
| 2016 | 9.5 |
| 2015 | 9.9 |
| 2014 | 9.7 |
| 2013 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 9.4 |
| 2011 | 8.3 |
| 2010 | 8.2 |
| 2009 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 10.6 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2024 | 10.3 |
| Thailand | 2025 | 12.4 |
| Indonesia | 2023 | 21.6 |
| Malaysia | 2022 | 10.2 |
| Philippines | 2024 | 16.5 |
| Singapore | 2025 | 6.5 |
| Cambodia | 2025 | 9.7 |
| Laos | 2022 | 22.5 |
| Myanmar | 2020 | 15.0 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Share of youth not in education, employment or training, total (% of youth population), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.UEM.NEET.ZS?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name sl_uem_neet_zs, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.