National Bureau of Statistics informs that, according to the results of the ,,Labor Force Survey” (LFS), in the third of 2023, young people aged between 15-34 years were represented by the following categories of people:

• young people neither in employment nor in education and training (NEET), the proportion of which was 28.6%, decreasing by 1.5 percentage points compared to the level of the third quarter of 2022 (30.1%);
• young people not in employment, but in education and training, which reached the share of 26.0%, or by 0.3 percentage points more compared to the third quarter of 2022 (25.7%);
• young people in employment and in education and training, which constituted 36.6%, increasing by 1.8 percentage points compared to the third quarter of 2022;
• young people in employment, but not in education and training, which marked 3.5,%, increasing by 1.8 percentage points compared to the third quarter of 2022 (1.7%); 
• young people who are abroad working or looking for work for a period of up to one year and not in education and training, which constituted 5.3%, decreasing by 2.4 percentage points compared to the level of the third quarter of 2022 (7.7%).

The total number of young people aged 15-34 years who forming the NEET group was 167.1 thousand people aged 15-24 years – 38.5 thousand people, aged 15-29 years – 100.3 thousand people. For all these three age groups, the majority are women (51.4% at the group 15-24 years, 65.4% at the aged 15-29 years and 64.4% at rge aged 15-34 years).

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