27.02.2023

WHERE YOUNG PEOPLE FIND WORK IN OUR COUNTRY MOST EASILY

There are fewer unemployed youth in Varna and Sofia, according to the latest Eurostat data. With average youth unemployment in our country in 2021 of 15.8%, it was 8.9% in the capital, and only 5.3% in Varna.

Things are not like that in the other seaside city - Burgas, where youth unemployment was even higher than the average for the country - 17% and Plovdiv - 19%.

In 2021, there were 3 million unemployed young people (aged 15–24) in the EU, and the youth unemployment rate was 16.6%.

Among EU urban regions, the largest difference in the youth unemployment rate compared to the corresponding national average was recorded in Palermo (+26.1 percentage points (p.p.) compared to the national average for Italy).

Youth unemployment levels were also more than 20 percentage points higher than the corresponding national averages in Messina (Italy; +25.3 percentage points), Les Abimes (France; +24.4 percentage points), Taranto (Italy; +24.0 percentage points), Las Palmas (Spain; +23.7 p.p.) and Napoli (Italy; +22.4 p.p.).

In contrast, the youth unemployment rate is lower than the national average in Bergamo (-18.4 percentage points compared to the Italian average). Other low levels compared to the respective national averages were recorded in Bratislava (Slovakia; -18.0 p.p.), Brasov and Cluj-Napoca (Romania; both -13.7 p.p.) and Timisoara (Romania) ; -13.6 p.p.).

Along with Italy, there were significant regional differences in youth unemployment rates in Romania and Spain. The youth unemployment rate in Craiova is 5.2 times higher than in Brasov; and in Las Palmas it is 2.6 times higher than in Pamplona/Irunha respectively.