Why Youth Unemployment Remains High In Many Countries

[Fiatless]

Unemployment remains high mainly because:

• Minimum wage hikes and high payroll taxes push companies to hire fewer juniors.
• Too many people chase the same office jobs, while trades go unfilled.

https://www.finalroundai.com/blog/ai-tech-layoffs-september-2025

You forgot to add the emergence of artificial intelligence. In recent times, many companies are sacking workers because their tasks can be done by AI tools. AI technology is not producing as many jobs as it takes away from humans. This has contributed to unemployment.

[Franklyn-wood]

College and the typical university are only teaching the basics and the theoretical about the subject matter taken by the students. And in real world, there's more for them to learn and that's why individual skills matter and AI is starting to be taught in schools too. What the best way to get hired nowadays is about having a portfolio, even having small projects that you built or related to the skills you have or past jobs, you put them online so that it won't be cvs that you'll be passing anymore but the actual work that you have made.

There are too many factors that causes unemployment today and it affecting majority of country in the world.
Educational sectors have become ceremonial activities not for studying and gaining knowledge as it use to be.
Some youths are lazy all they wanted is means if getting quick money and living a fake life style, this means that many youths compares themselves to others who get money  through illegal ways without knowing there sources of income all they wanted is to be like them.

[Rockstarguy]

Based on the rising population size I don't think that there can be Employment Opportunity for every youth because the number of youths who are of the employable age yearly is more than the available jobs, What this means is that as an individual you need to plan and focus on your personal development especially with building a skill that can help you become self sufficient tomorrow. If you have a skill you do not need to seek employment under anyone rather you become an employer of Labor and will even help the employment situation in your country.

And I will say the government is not creating jobs. Every year we have a large number of graduates coming out of college. As long as the government is not creating jobs, the rate of unemployment will keep increasing.

Due to the economic hardships, companies are folding; this is also increasing the rate of unemployment. When it comes to employment, the government has an important role to play by creating jobs, and the economy too. If the economy is stable, the private sector will also create more jobs that will reduce the rate of unemployment.

[Powerjumboo]

The reason for the high number of youth unemployment in the country is the lack of skills and education of the youth. Currently, the education system in the country is so bad that students do not want to receive education. They are only addicted to mobile phones, gambling, and drugs, which have made all these addicted youths even more unemployed. Currently, the education system in the country is very bad, so children are not able to receive proper education. Perhaps they are not able to become skilled because of not receiving proper education, of course they are not able to be educated, due to which the number of unemployment is increasing more and more. However, to reduce the number of unemployment, youth training centers should be set up in every region and government training should be provided there and then jobs should be arranged.

[Joeboy]

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Fr OP, the rise of unemployment is majorly due to laziness and folks inability to accept the actual reality.. Quite all right I know that folks with more connections tends to see jobs faster than other who don't,... But then again if the grace to get a white collared job isn't there, isn't it better to just go and learn a skill instead of wasting time doing nothing only to come at the end to blame the government.. As long as someone isn't incapacitated, then that individual should have something doing be it a job or a skill.. Let's stop with the blame and doing something for a change..Be the change that you want to see...

[Finestream]

Education became a business in 21st century, so schools and colleges are accommodating as many students they can and milk money as much as they want and the result is mediocre students with no real world skills this is why they are struggling to get a job. And what IT company are you talking about? There are many people who completed graduation in computer but they can't even write simple code then it is fine to not give them job unless they equip themselves with the necessary skills.

Exactly. Education is useless if practical skills are not achieved. The real battle appears after graduation, so if you fail to acquire those real world skills but only pure knowledge, truly getting a job is really hard, especially if you have no connections inside, that will put you at a high desperation.

The thing is, education should not only be our focus. We should take time to develop practical skills and enhance them along the way, so that when end of school is near, at least we can be confident that we have brought along us our potential assets and skills that will guarantee landing us into our dream corporate job.

[blockman]

The requirement for working for a cashier in the Philippines is with a degree and pleasing personality. It is the oligarchs who have set the standard on what they have to hire even if the job is so easy and can be done by someone who doesn't have a degree. This is a long debate that you've studied for so long in order to get paid a minimum pay. Studying with a degree for 4 years and even more for some and yet, due to the lack of opportunities in many areas in the country, they're taking every opportunity that they can even if it's not related to what they finished.

[tabas]

College and the typical university are only teaching the basics and the theoretical about the subject matter taken by the students. And in real world, there's more for them to learn and that's why individual skills matter and AI is starting to be taught in schools too. What the best way to get hired nowadays is about having a portfolio, even having small projects that you built or related to the skills you have or past jobs, you put them online so that it won't be cvs that you'll be passing anymore but the actual work that you have made.

There are too many factors that causes unemployment today and it affecting majority of country in the world.
Educational sectors have become ceremonial activities not for studying and gaining knowledge as it use to be.
Some youths are lazy all they wanted is means if getting quick money and living a fake life style, this means that many youths compares themselves to others who get money  through illegal ways without knowing there sources of income all they wanted is to be like them.

Technology has something to do with why they have become lazy. The new generation think that money grows on trees and that's why if they've been hired on a job, they find it so hard. That's what I noticed in the new young professionals but that's just the start for them and soon, they'll realize that no one is there to save them and they need to work for their own growth. They'll be forced to study and learn the nature of their jobs and what they like to work for so long. But I hope that not a lot of them will get into illegal ways of earning.

[Felicity_Tide]

Well, it is what it is. And, I don't think it's the fault of these establishments that they only seek after those with experience.
Every working company wants to employ those who can offer something, by hitting the ground running from their first day at work. It's quite unfortunate that a lot of countries and institutions are still prioritizing only academic degrees, while overlooking the importance of skill acquisition. A few companies can actually create room for new skilled workers with no experience, but it still won't benefit those who don't even have the skill at all. Having the skill is already a plus that puts you in a very good position even without the experience. Not having the skill at all is already a disadvantage on its part.

[icebar]

It is natural that the unemployment rate among the educated people of those countries will be high in countries where education is given only in name. Nothing good can ever be achieved with knowledge contained in books only. Where the whole world is busy with new inventions, if the people of a country practice the entire subjects written in books, then that knowledge will never be of any use. At present, if a country lags behind in technology, the population of that country will also lag behind in terms of employment. If the common people of the country do not receive modern education and make themselves unskilled, then the unemployment problem of that country will definitely increase. If the human resources of a country cannot be educated in real education, then they will never be able to progress.

[Findingnemo]

Education became a business in 21st century, so schools and colleges are accommodating as many students they can and milk money as much as they want and the result is mediocre students with no real world skills this is why they are struggling to get a job. And what IT company are you talking about? There are many people who completed graduation in computer but they can't even write simple code then it is fine to not give them job unless they equip themselves with the necessary skills.

Exactly. Education is useless if practical skills are not achieved. The real battle appears after graduation, so if you fail to acquire those real world skills but only pure knowledge, truly getting a job is really hard, especially if you have no connections inside, that will put you at a high desperation.

The thing is, education should not only be our focus. We should take time to develop practical skills and enhance them along the way, so that when end of school is near, at least we can be confident that we have brought along us our potential assets and skills that will guarantee landing us into our dream corporate job.

We can't blame the students because they are just upto the level that they have been exactly asked to, so the educational insitutions are equally responsible for making the students as graduate with no real world knowledge. Some of the private colleges where the tuition fees are in thousands of dollars might give them but it should be for everyone not just only for the elites, and I guess this is also something we should change if possible.

Another thing is everyone wants to get a cozy job which is fine but, when there is less demand and more qualified candidates then the pay is going to be a lot less.

[Unknown Op]

Op Today job market is entirely different and changed from old pattern and no doubt you have many solid and authentic points. But I still have believe that todays education is not outdated it may be so yes it's so they way we delivere education is not compete the requirements of industries. With digree an individual just gain foundational knowledge but in real world recruiter wants technical experiences also along with digrees, no doubt references and networking helps a lot in hiring but merit has its own importance. The other major challenge is advancement in technology and every individual should need to learn new skills and need to remains updated according to updated technology. So that individuals who remains in touch with updated technology and improves there skills according to time they become more stronger and stable than others.

I think that not everyone has capital or education or all the experties that are needed to start a business or entrepreneurship, for being a business owner is the solution to all the problem then every hard working person who is giving his 100% to the business is they should be financially successful which is clearly not the case. It is the biggest responsibility of any government to create environment in which it is easy to start a business because of the finances and their infrastructure security and stable policies, that is the reason without these things many entrepreneurs fails, it is not okay that all the people can be entrepreneur the economy also need skilled employees and a stable economy is combination of both jobs seekers and job creators.

[Versatile_choice]

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Fr OP, the rise of unemployment is majorly due to laziness and folks inability to accept the actual reality..

You have just said it all bro, if not for laziness and the inability to accept the actual reality, the rate of unemployment in the country would have been low. But nowadays almost all the youths depend solely on the government waiting for them to bring job opportunities, I have few of my friends who depend solely on government jobs. So there was a day I sat them down and start asking them how long did they intend to keep waiting for the government to bring job opportunities for them.... honestly the country is no getting any better instead it keeps getting worst, I have learned to stay independent because if I had wait patiently for the government to bring job opportunity for me I would waste a whole lot of years.

[MRY]

You have just said it all bro, if not for laziness and the inability to accept the actual reality, the rate of unemployment in the country would have been low. But nowadays almost all the youths depend solely on the government waiting for them to bring job opportunities, I have few of my friends who depend solely on government jobs. So there was a day I sat them down and start asking them how long did they intend to keep waiting for the government to bring job opportunities for them.... honestly the country is no getting any better instead it keeps getting worst, I have learned to stay independent because if I had wait patiently for the government to bring job opportunity for me I would waste a whole lot of years.

The survival today is based on relying on yourself. The reason so many people succeed is because they have made their own career without help of government. Daily practice skill will be very important than waiting to become an employee. It is time to work out to us now, time will never return.

[sunsilk]

The survival today is based on relying on yourself. The reason so many people succeed is because they have made their own career without help of government. Daily practice skill will be very important than waiting to become an employee. It is time to work out to us now, time will never return.

IMO, not all of them really relied to anybody but at the some point I think that they've got some help from their respective governments. Especially in the USA.

There's a massive support from the start ups there when the company is in the tech side and other industries too.

While they can be counted for their respective efforts alone, I believe that no man is an island and these successful individuals have got some help from either the government, investors, friends or some stranger.

[Soldroplet]

Yes, like other countries, youth unemployment is high in our country too. Putting the burden of unreasonable expectations on a boy without understanding what he can do with the right skills, right management, and what he can do is one of the reasons for increasing unemployment.
There are some other reasons for youth unemployment, one of which is the education system. After a boy graduates from his college, what will he do, where will he go, the responsibility of an entire family falls on his shoulders. Later, that young man suddenly decides and decides within a short time and enters a low-quality job, because he has the responsibility of an entire family on his shoulders. And when he enters a low-quality job, he faces many problems in entering a good job later.
As a last word, I would like to say one thing, after graduating, all the youth of the country should bring out from within themselves according to their own capabilities and in what subjects they are good at, and choose their path accordingly, understanding well what they can actually do and what they cannot do.

[alani123]

You can't blame the youths for high unemployment in their age group and it's not a fault of universities either.

It's not like if we had world class universities accessible to anyone that all of a sudden society would change instantly. The economical system doesn't reward good academic skills in many jobs sadly. In an ideal world where not everything was about profit, hiring university educated people should have been a priority. But many corporetions now would rather the younger and dumber among the crowd.

There's also plenty of well educated and experienced individuals that ever since the 2008 financial crisis have been working in other fields, maybe even getting more education, waiting to re enter their fields of choice. So younger people are just left behind 

[Samlucky O]

Education is outdated
Colleges teach old books, but companies now want AI, digital marketing, and practical skills.
So degree alone is not enough to get a job now.

Yes degree is not enough to get a job, nowadays you need to be skillful to fix yourself somewhere in the society. Education is just needed learn how to read and write, it is like a road map to unlock your full potential but it can not teach you everything in life. Education has limit to what it can teach, so you don't expect to know everything in school. It may look outdated to you but the process of learning how to read and write is not outdated. If you want to upgrade after education, you need to fix yourself in one of those new skill acquisition program to learn more skill that can not be thought in school and it will help your carrier in pursuit.

 

Companies want experience
They only hire people who already worked before.
But freshers can’t get experience if no one gives them a first chance.

Definitely company wants people with expirience to facilitate their job, because they see these fresher as people that will slow their job, and they might not hire them, but this is not applicable to all firms. Some will want to see if you have little knowledge so that they can employ and fix you somewhere to unlock your full potential so you will work effectively with even lower payment and later get increased. So it depends on the company.

Jobs are in big cities
Most good offices and IT firms are in known cities.
If you live in a small town, you have to move or stay jobless.

Job are in big cities, but that does not mean that people in small towns are jobless. There are things that people in small town do and make more money than people in the city. You just need to be skillful to succeed regardless of where you find yourself. Location is not a barrier to success. There are Also opportunities in the rural areas. If there are no jobs there there, they produce food and sell to the big cities. So there are many things to do and succeed in small towns without necessarily going to the city.

[yhiaali3]

This is actually one of the worst problems I faced while searching for a job. Most, if not all, companies require candidates with at least 3-5 years of experience. If all companies require this, how is a recent graduate supposed to find work and gain experience? It's a difficult dilemma to solve.

My problem was more complicated than that. I did have experience, but I didn't have any experience certificates because I was working as a freelancer. When I started looking for work with companies, my application wasn't accepted because I didn't have certified experience certificates from previous work with companies.

[Minor Miner]

https://www.finalroundai.com/blog/ai-tech-layoffs-september-2025

You forgot to add the emergence of artificial intelligence. In recent times, many companies are sacking workers because their tasks can be done by AI tools. AI technology is not producing as many jobs as it takes away from humans. This has contributed to unemployment.

Yes, the emergence of AI has contributed to higher unemployment. However, unemployment has existed and persisted for many years. It is not a new problem. Meanwhile, the AI boom has only emerged over the past few years.

AI may exacerbate unemployment in some industries, but it is not the root cause of the problem. I think the main reason is the imbalance between the pace of new job creation and the number of people entering the workforce. And I do not think this problem will be solved. It will most likely only become more serious over time. Therefore, we should appreciate the jobs we have instead of constantly complaining about them.