Department for Education · Explore Education Statistics: absence, SEN, attainment, apprenticeships, NEET, class sizes
Young people NEET, number
839,893people
Young people NEET, number was 839,893 people in 2025, up 0.4% (2,938) from 836,955 in 2024.
▲ 0.4% · +2,938 against 2024 (previous period)
- Department for Education estimate
- 2025
- published 4 August 2026
- 019cc380-4628-71be-bdc2-a01a95b64c89
- row “Age=16 to 24; Quarter=Q4; Sex=Total”
- column “Number NEET”
- cell value 839893.368810454
2000 to 2025
What this measures
The estimated number of 16 to 24 year olds in England not in education, employment or training in the October to December quarter.
What this doesn’t measure
Who they are individually: it is a survey-weighted estimate, not a register.
Important caveat
Labour Force Survey estimates come from a sample of households, so every figure has a margin of error and small changes between quarters may not be real. Response rates fell sharply after 2020; ONS suspended the survey's accredited official statistics status in 2024 and reintroduced it with reweighted estimates, so figures across that period are not a clean series. Civometry stores the calendar-quarter estimates because the monthly figures ONS publishes for these series are three-month rolling averages named after their final month.
Revision history
No period of this series has been revised since it was first ingested here. Revisions are recorded automatically when a later release publishes a different figure for the same period.
Source
- Publisher
- Department for Education
- Publication
- Explore Education Statistics: absence, SEN, attainment, apprenticeships, NEET, class sizes
- Release
- Explore Education Statistics: releases to August 2026, published 4 August 2026
- Source file
- dfe_education.json
- File SHA-256
- 301a1eda429205c90247cc4efad5564351b549d7772715a628d8459e360d8b47
- Retrieved
- 3 September 2026
- Sheet
- neet
- Table
- 019cc380-4628-71be-bdc2-a01a95b64c89
- Row
- Age=16 to 24; Quarter=Q4; Sex=Total
- Column
- Number NEET
- Cell value
- 839893.368810454
- Geography
- E92000001
- Unit
- people
- API
- /api/metrics/neet_count · /series · /vintages
Government periods
Change during each government, from the level inherited to the last complete period before it left office. Describes the period; does not attribute cause.
| Labour 2024– | 733,3302023 | 839,8932025 | ↑ 14.5% |
| Conservative 2019–2024 | 650,7652018 | 733,3302023 | ↑ 12.7% |
| Conservative 2017–2019 | 668,4112016 | 650,7652018 | ↓ 2.6% |
| Conservative 2015–2017 | 786,3052014 | 668,4112016 | ↓ 15.0% |
| Coalition 2010–2015 | 880,1792009 | 786,3052014 | ↓ 10.7% |
| Labour 2005–2010 | 737,6282004 | 880,1792009 | ↑ 19.3% |
| Labour 2001–2005 | 628,8462000 | 737,6282004 | ↑ 17.3% |
- Release
- Explore Education Statistics: releases to August 2026 · publication page
- Last updated
- 4 August 2026
- Next release expected
- Not yet announced (estimated from the usual cadence)