The youth of the world are having a terrible time staying employed. This visualization, from Jerome Cukier at the OECD Factblog, shows the alarming difference in unemployment between those aged 15-24 and the rest of the population.
About this Viz
People aged 15-24 in Sweden are 4 times more likely to be unemployed than their older countrymen. Norway suffers a similar ratio, though overall unemployment is an extremely low 3.2% (as you can tell from the lightly colored bar). On the other end of the spectrum, German youth have nearly the same chances of unemployment as older Germans, but at a much higher overall unemployment rate of 7.5%.
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