Year % of total labor force ages 15-24 (modeled ILO estimate) 1991 13.655541072362903 1992 14.526278120474426 1993 13.742067628218438 1994 12.836566534663755 1995 12.404590275050046 1996 12.383480608742905 1997 11.872666601885733 1998 10.865176979823211 1999 10.286921001252344 2000 9.604947857328657 2001 10.720272046940782 2002 12.089360257058692 2003 12.472401368497612 2004 11.939111934839454 2005 11.343710860005254 2006 10.545190595966924 2007 10.526114392588282 2008 12.630864838404214 2009 17.287750258312347 2010 18.00192557892996 2011 16.94790390930691 2012 15.992271181812978 2013 15.317804036096343 2014 13.36876837309964 2015 11.721482885752955 2016 10.62095802575273 2017 9.417581367715876 2018 8.803770124536678 2019 8.601671229578393 2020 15.388287655457829 2021 10.061479722402416 2022 8.284085679314174 2023 8.15627629728837