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Jobs & cost of living · World

For recent grads: how easy it is to find work, how good the jobs are, what they pay and what life costs.

Grad view

World
Youth unemployment
13.4 % · 2025
Recent-grad employment
no data
Average wage (PPP)
no data
Price level
no data
Housing squeeze
no data

Unemployment

Unemployment rate

monthly where available · %
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0

Youth unemployment, 15–24

US 16–24 · %
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0

Not available for World: Unemployment, 25–29, Unemployment with a degree, Job vacancy rate, Job openings per unemployed person, Long-term unemployed (1 year +), Quits rate, Employment rate of recent graduates, Employment rate, tertiary-educated 25–34, Not in employment, education or training (NEET), Graduate earnings premium, Temporary contracts, Temporary contracts, 15–24, Part-time work, Hours worked per worker, per year, Very long hours (50 h + a week), Usual weekly hours, full-time job, Average annual wage, Median full-time wage (approx.), Real wage growth, Minimum wage, hourly, Minimum wage vs median wage, Minimum wage, monthly (EU), Price level of household consumption, Price level now (OECD, monthly), Price level of household consumption (EU27 = 100), Price level: food (EU27 = 100), Price level: housing, water, energy (EU27 = 100), Price level: transport (EU27 = 100), Price level: restaurants and hotels (EU27 = 100), Big Mac price, House price-to-income, House price-to-rent, Rents, Housing cost overburden, aged 25–29, Still living with their parents, 25–29.

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