Youth unemployment in the United Kingdom is the level of unemployment among young people, typically defined as those aged 18–25. A related concept is graduate unemployment which is the level of unemployment among university graduates. Statistics for June 2010 show that there are 926,000 young people under the age of 25 who are unemployed which equates to an unemployment rate of 19.6% among young people.[2] This is the highest youth unemployment rate in 17 years.[3] In November 2011 youth unemployment hit 1.02 million,[4] but had fallen to 767,000 by August 2014.[5] The high levels of youth unemployment in the United Kingdom have led some politicians and media commentators to talk of a "lost generation".[6][7][8][9]
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