20% of young people between the ages of 18 and 24 in Spain neither study nor work, compared to an average of 13% in the EU

• Youth unemployment is becoming chronic: Spain has half the number of workers under 30 years of age than in 2007

The recovery of the labor market after covid-19 in Spain has not prevented the

(the so-called '

') from increasing since 2019 to now account

according to the latest

data

.

This means that one in five young people in Spain between the ages of 18 and 24 are neither in training nor working, a percentage that exceeds the

and also that of the

.

In fact, at the end of 2021, Spain is

only behind

, where 24.8% of those under 25 years of age do neither.

The best places in the ranking are occupied by

(with only 7.6% ninis),

(8.1%),

(8.4%),

(8.8%) and

(9% ).

).

Proportion of NEETs over the total number of young people in OECD countries

The group of ninis includes both young people who are

but cannot find a job -and who are listed as unemployed-, as well as those who are

without looking for work.

Spain draws attention because it is one of the few countries in which there are

than because of inactivity.

Specifically,

compared to 9.2% who consider themselves inactive.

This is so due to the

that exists in the country, 29.2% at the end of January 2022, which also places Spain in a leading position compared to the rest of the European countries, only behind

, with 32.7%.

In fact, while Spain occupies the ninth position in the proportion of ninis within the OECD,

of all those that make up the organization by

only behind Turkey and Colombia.

Work and study at the same time

Our country is also one of those that has suffered the

, since they went from being 19.2% of the total before covid to 22% in 2020, to later drop again in 2021 up to 19.9%.

This increase of 2.8 percentage points in the year of the pandemic placed

as the

in the OECD, after Colombia, Canada, the US and Estonia.

The increase in ninis has been parallel to the

, which in the last two decades has been reduced from 38% to 16% due to the financial crisis that started in 2008, did not recover afterwards and returned to fall with the pandemic.

"This new decline

in terms of youth employment and training," lament the experts from Fedea, EY and BBVA Research in the 'Human Capital Outlook' report.

Of those under 25 years of age in the country, apart from the 19.9% ​​who are ninis,

-in Germany, for example, the proportion of those who only study is 30.2%-,

and only

-compared to 33% in Germany-.

According to the OECD,

.

On average, in the countries that make up the organization, the proportion of ninis women is 16.5% compared to 14% of men.

"However, the reasons for being nini are not the same for women as for men. In almost all OECD countries, the majority of

ninis are

, while the majority of

who are ninis are because

," they point out.

70% of ninis are inactive, compared to 50% of men.

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