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Employment Unemployment Social participation

Employment rate o the young population(1524), 2007

Unemployment rates by age groups (1524, 15 andover), EU-27, 2007

Percentage o the population aged 1629 thatparticipated in the last 12 months in activities o ,by sex, EU-25, 2006

Unemployment rate by age group and sex, EU-27,2000-2007

Percentage o the population o age group thatparticipated in the last 12 months in activities o ,EU-25, 2006

Percentage o people aged 1524 that have a tempo-rary job because they could not nd permanent job,2007

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Source: Eurostat LabourForce SurveyNote: Employmentrate representpersons aged1524in employmentasa percentage ofthe totalpopulation of1524. Accordingto the LFSmethodology, "work" meansany workfor payor protduring thereference week, even for aslittle asone hour".

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 %

EU27BEBGCZDKDEEEIEELESFRIT

CYLVLT LUHUMT NLAT PLPT ROSI

SKFI

SEUK

Women Men

1 5 24 1 5 an d ov erSource: Eurostat LabourForce Survey

0

5

10

15

20%

15,8

7,8

15,2

6,5

Men WomenSource: Eurostat EU-SILCad hoc module 2006 on "Socialparticipation".

0 5 10 15 20 25 %

Politicalpartiesortrade unions

Professionalassociations

Churchesor otherreligiousorganisations

Recreationalgroupsor organisations

Charitable organisations

Other groupsor organisations

1 6 29 3 0 an d o ve rSource: Eurostat EU-SILCad hoc module 2006 on "Socialparticipation".

Politicalpartiesor

trade unions

Churchesor otherreligious

organisations

Recreationalgroupsor

organisations

Charitablesorganisations

Othergroupsor

organisations

Professionalassosiations

0

5

10

15

20

25

%

Source: Eurostat LabourForce SurveyNote: BE, BG, DE, EL, ES, LT, LU, NL, AT, UK: unreliable or uncertaindata due to small sample size

EU27BEBGCZDKDEEEIEELESFRIT

CYLVLT LUHUMT NLAT PLPT

ROSISKFI

SEUK

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 %

Source: Eurostat LabourForce Survey

Men (15andover)

W om en (1 52 4) M en (1 5 24 )

5

10

15

20

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

%

Women (15andover)

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Youth in the European Union Youth population Youth population projections

Empowering young people and creating avorable con-ditions or them to develop their skills, to work andto play an active role in society is essential to ensurethe sound economic and social development o theEuropean Union. This is particularly true in the con-text o globalization, knowledge-based economiesand ageing societies, where it is crucial that youngpersons are given the opportunity to achieve their ullpotential.

In this respect, Eurostat intends to publish a statisticalbook on Youth in the European Union in early 2009,providing details on the situation o young people inthe EU. This publication will cover a wide range o top-ics such as demography, health, education, transition

rom school to work, poverty, living conditions, use o in ormation and communication technology (ICT) andparticipation in voluntary activities.

The present leafet provides an insight on a number o aspects that will be developed in the orthcoming edi-tion o Youth in the European Union.

Young people (1519, 2024, 2529) as a share o total population, 01.01.2007

Projections o the percentage o people aged 1529 inthe total population (2010, 2030 and 2050)

2010 2030 2050

EU-27BEBGCZDKDEEEIEELESFRIT CYLVLT LUHUMT NLAT PLPT ROSISKFISEUK

18,918,519,519,617,817,521,822,517,718,118,815,823,722,322,718,619,421,218,218,923,018,221,519,022,918,719,420,2

16,317,115,715,617,614,417,119,815,916,818,015,117,715,914,918,016,015,216,816,115,116,315,715,215,216,517,017,7

15,316,713,613,717,814,515,017,514,214,217,213,616,913,914,117,814,514,716,715,813,314,513,413,913,116,617,217,8

Source: Eurostat Population projections

1 5 19 2 0 24 2 5 29

Sources: Eurostat Demographic data

EU27

BE

BG

CZ

DK

DE

EE

IE

EL

ES

FR

IT

CY

LVLT

LU

HU

MT

NL

AT

PL

PT

RO

SI

SK

FI

SE

UK

0 5 10 15 20 %