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Iraq Youth Unemployment 2010s

Youth unemployment (ages 15-24) · World Bank
21.31% decade average (2010-2019)

Iraq's youth unemployment during the 2010s ranged from 16.09% (2012) to 29.75% (2019), averaging 21.31% over 10 years of data.

2010s Data
YearValueChangeRank
2010 16.58% −0.24pp 100th
2011 16.45% −0.13pp 97th
2012 16.09% −0.36pp 96th
2013 17.91% +1.82pp 106th
2014 19.91% +2.00pp 120th
2015 21.39% +1.48pp 127th
2016 22.45% +1.06pp 132nd
2017 25.28% +2.83pp 145th
2018 27.34% +2.06pp 150th
2019 29.75% +2.41pp 158th