Year % of total labor force ages 15-24 (modeled ILO estimate) 1991 18.952307860237397 1992 20.05653487451095 1993 23.536448911225406 1994 24.835284814248816 1995 24.212388794259102 1996 24.361421223910394 1997 23.31253790838666 1998 21.81573227300703 1999 21.96547667310257 2000 20.920479037620797 2001 20.012051056030707 2002 20.74543309452918 2003 20.799674489350075 2004 21.31670148625493 2005 21.29069537419252 2006 19.542360246529576 2007 17.014626087018343 2008 16.845282437816124 2009 21.46487663792104 2010 22.835756831219616 2011 23.662914652170684 2012 25.887577234560712 2013 26.845967703754653 2014 25.943648153253445 2015 24.205568434183558 2016 22.447830021152278 2017 20.134154756615104 2018 18.149802286353356 2019 16.979039839611954 2020 18.878830693352786 2021 18.812192430356554 2022 16.353307938211625 2023 16.14329654691019