12.5% of 15-29 year olds in France are not in employment or training. This is the same as a year earlier and exceeds the rate recorded at the end of 2019 by 0.3 points.
The trend is surprising as the last five years have been particularly beneficial for the rest of the French labor market. The country has in fact seen the unemployment rate fall by almost 1% and the creation of hundreds of thousands of jobs. “ French NEETs are characterized by an over-representation of young people experiencing long-term unemployment…”