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Department for Education · Explore Education Statistics: absence, SEN, attainment, apprenticeships, NEET, class sizes

Young people not in education, employment or training

2025 Final

13.3%

Young people not in education, employment or training was 13.3% in 2025, down 0.3 percentage points from 13.6% in 2024.

▼ −0.3 percentage points against 2024 (previous period)

  1. Department for Education percentage
  2. 2025
  3. published 4 August 2026
  4. 019cc380-4628-71be-bdc2-a01a95b64c89
  5. row “Age=16 to 24; Quarter=Q4; Sex=Total”
  6. column “Percentage of population NEET”
  7. cell value 13.3371555827521

2000 to 2025

Young people not in education, employment or training: 2000 to 2025LabourLabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour0%5%10%15%2000201020202000: 12.3% percent · published 4 August 20262001: 12.5% percent · published 4 August 20262002: 12.3% percent · published 4 August 20262003: 12.1% percent · published 4 August 20262004: 13.1% percent · published 4 August 20262005: 14.5% percent · published 4 August 20262006: 13.9% percent · published 4 August 20262007: 13% percent · published 4 August 20262008: 14.2% percent · published 4 August 20262009: 14.8% percent · published 4 August 20262010: 15.6% percent · published 4 August 20262011: 16% percent · published 4 August 20262012: 14.9% percent · published 4 August 20262013: 14.1% percent · published 4 August 20262014: 13.1% percent · published 4 August 20262015: 11.6% percent · published 4 August 20262016: 11.3% percent · published 4 August 20262017: 11% percent · published 4 August 20262018: 11.3% percent · published 4 August 20262019: 11.2% percent · published 4 August 20262020: 11.9% percent · published 4 August 20262021: 10.7% percent · published 4 August 20262022: 12.5% percent · published 4 August 20262023: 12.1% percent · published 4 August 20262024: 13.6% percent · published 4 August 20262025: 13.3% percent · published 4 August 2026
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What this measures

The estimated percentage of 16 to 24 year olds in England who were not in education, employment or training in the October to December quarter, from the Labour Force Survey.

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Percentage change ≠ Percentage-point changeA rate moving from 4% to 5% has risen by one percentage point and by 25%. This site describes changes in rates in points, never as a percentage of a percentage.

What this doesn’t measure

Benefit receipt or long-term outcomes; the estimate is a survey snapshot with a sampling margin.

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
Percentage of population NEET
Cell value
13.3371555827521
Geography
E92000001
Unit
percent
API
/api/metrics/neet_rate · /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 2024–12.1%202313.3%2025↑ 10.3%
Conservative 2019–202411.3%201812.1%2023↑ 7.1%
Conservative 2017–201911.3%201611.3%2018↑ 0.1%
Conservative 2015–201713.1%201411.3%2016↓ 13.6%
Coalition 2010–201514.8%200913.1%2014↓ 11.7%
Labour 2005–201013.1%200414.8%2009↑ 12.7%
Labour 2001–200512.3%200013.1%2004↑ 6.7%

Full comparison with chart

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)