Year % of total labor force ages 15-24 (modeled ILO estimate) 1991 5.989664397153435 1992 6.190164306641589 1993 6.70232313320497 1994 7.074727935951382 1995 7.216288487249601 1996 7.570474680850593 1997 7.586251323054068 1998 7.812085047758658 1999 7.783581347177492 2000 7.530253063210298 2001 7.282417200615019 2002 6.905505684113229 2003 6.646981881300524 2004 6.368305641699806 2005 6.221350584605418 2006 6.023214379772025 2007 5.807028934512101 2008 5.916344167240217 2009 6.015516741580675 2010 6.154193160990942 2011 6.291948174835073 2012 8.791292828824494 2013 8.142190665673729 2014 7.486683721238923 2015 8.783998023594295 2016 8.425494234578698 2017 9.454238178815508 2018 10.292612457118773 2019 11.224005030959086 2020 11.928600644456981 2021 11.104237171688293 2022 9.359680827085203 2023 8.894368183900102