(Finance) – Italy is in last place among the EU countries for young men aged between 15 and 29 who do not study, do not work and are not engaged in training courses. Based on data published by Eurostat referring to 2022. I Boys NEET in Italy they are 17.7%, ahead of Romania (14.5%) and Greece (14.1%). As for the girls instead the second worst result is recorded with 20.5%, behind Romania (25.4%) and ahead of Bulgaria (17.4%). Overall, i young Italians those who do not study and do not work are 19% behind only the Romania.
In 2022, more than one in ten young people (11.7%) in the EU aged between 15 and 29 years old was neither employed nor educated or trained (NEET), indicating a decrease of 1.4 percentage points (pp) compared to 2021. During the last decade, there has been a significant decrease in share of NEET young adults. In 2012 the EU recorded a rate of 16.0%, which peaked in 2013 (16.1%) and then started a steady decline. An exception occurred in 2020, when the indicator reached 13.8% during the pandemic (from 12.6% in 2019), but has continued its downward trend since then, reaching 11.7% in 2022.
Reducing this rate is one of the objectives of the European Pillar of rights social. The goal is to lower the rate of young NEETs aged 15-29 at 9% in 2030. Across EU countries, there were large variations in 2022 when looking at NEET rates for the 15-29 age group. The proportion of NEETs in the EU ranged from 4.2% in Villages Low to a share almost 5 times higher in Romania (19.8%).
Data show that, in 2022, a third of EU members were already below theobjective by 9 for 2030, i.e. the Netherlands (4.2%), Sweden (5.7%), Malta (7.2%), Luxembourg (7.4%), Denmark (7.9%), Portugal (8.4%), Slovenia (8.5%), Germany (8.6%) and Ireland (8.7%).
In most EU members, there were differences between the shares of NEET young women and men. In 2022, 13.1% of young women aged 15-29 in the EU were NEETs, while the corresponding share among young men was 10.5%. The lowest NEET rates for young women and young men are both in the Villages Low: 3.8% for young men and 4.6% for young women.
In only four EU countries, the quotas of NEET young women were lower than the associated share of men: Luxembourg (6.9% women vs 7.9% men), Finland (8.8% vs 10.3%), Belgium (9.1% vs 9.3%) and Estonia (9.2% against 11.9%).