Labour Market Statistics for 16 to 24 year olds: Scotland and the United Kingdom - October 2023 to September 2024
Statistics from the Annual Population Survey covering the period from October 2023 to September 2024.
Unemployment
In October 2023 to September 2024, an estimated 36,100 people aged 16 to 24 were unemployed in Scotland. This is 2,300 more than the number of unemployed 16 to 24 year olds in October 2022 to September 2023.
The estimated unemployment rate for 16 to 24 year olds was 10.4 per cent in October 2023 to September 2024. This was 0.7 percentage points (pp) higher than a year ago (9.7 per cent) and 1.3 pp higher than in October 2018 to September 2019 (9.1 per cent). October 2018 to September 2019 is the last data point in the October to September series before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
For the United Kingdom, the estimated unemployment rate for 16 to 24 year olds was 11.4 per cent. This was 0.7 pp higher than the year before (10.8 per cent) and the same as in October 2018 to September 2019.
Chart 3: The unemployment rate for people aged 16 to 24 in Scotland had been broadly similar to the United Kingdom rate until October 2015 to September 2016 when Scotland started seeing a consistently lower unemployment rate but in the last few years both rates have returned to being broadly similar
Unemployment rate estimates for people aged 16 to 24, Scotland and the United Kingdom, October 2004 to September 2005 through to October 2023 to September 2024
Source: Annual Population Survey, October to September datasets, ONS
Shaded areas represent 95 percent confidence intervals.
Contact
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Labour Market Statistics,
Office of the Chief Economic Adviser
Telephone: 0131 244 6773,
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Office of the Chief Statistician
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