Youth Unemployment
A demographic bulge meeting an economy with nowhere to put it.
Severity score
37.7
Serious · default weighting
Trajectory
Worsening
What this is
Youth unemployment and underemployment remain far above adult rates, particularly across North Africa, the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa where the working-age population is growing fastest. It correlates strongly with migration pressure, unrest and armed group recruitment.
Score breakdown
Loss of life
10Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
72People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
54Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
2Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
56Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.