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Unemployment, youth total (% of total labor force ages 15-24) (modeled ILO estimate): Vietnam, 1991–2025
- Latest (2025)
- 6.17 %
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- SL.UEM.1524.ZS
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Youth unemployment refers to the share of the labor force ages 15-24 without work but available for and seeking employment.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1991 to 2025 (35 years of data). It moved from 4.18 to 6.17 %, a change of 47.5%. The highest value was 7.12 in 2017 and the lowest 3.23 in 2011. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 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 (%) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 6.17 |
| 2024 | 6.34 |
| 2023 | 6.44 |
| 2022 | 6.10 |
| 2021 | 6.90 |
| 2020 | 6.55 |
| 2019 | 5.62 |
| 2018 | 4.65 |
| 2017 | 7.12 |
| 2016 | 6.76 |
| 2015 | 6.27 |
| 2014 | 4.67 |
| 2013 | 4.56 |
| 2012 | 3.63 |
| 2011 | 3.23 |
| 2010 | 3.43 |
| 2009 | 4.43 |
| 2008 | 5.18 |
| 2007 | 5.89 |
| 2006 | 5.40 |
| 2005 | 4.96 |
| 2004 | 4.57 |
| 2003 | 4.72 |
| 2002 | 4.42 |
| 2001 | 5.59 |
| 2000 | 4.73 |
| 1999 | 4.79 |
| 1998 | 4.77 |
| 1997 | 5.99 |
| 1996 | 3.97 |
| 1995 | 3.99 |
| 1994 | 3.99 |
| 1993 | 4.07 |
| 1992 | 4.15 |
| 1991 | 4.18 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2025 | 6.17 |
| Thailand | 2025 | 4.53 |
| Indonesia | 2025 | 12.98 |
| Malaysia | 2025 | 11.95 |
| Philippines | 2025 | 7.04 |
| Singapore | 2025 | 6.78 |
| Cambodia | 2025 | 0.71 |
| Laos | 2025 | 2.38 |
| Myanmar | 2025 | 9.81 |
| China | 2025 | 15.80 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Unemployment, youth total (% of total labor force ages 15-24) (modeled ILO estimate), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.UEM.1524.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_1524_zs, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.