Female Youth Not in Education or Employment (15-18)

Share of the female population ages 15-18 that is neither employed nor in school. The dataset is produced by the LAC Equity Lab, part of the World Bank. It provides a specific indicator for monitoring youth disengagement.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in the share of female youth not in education, employment, or training (NEET) over time.
• Compare female youth NEET rates across different countries or regions within the LAC Equity Lab's coverage.
• Correlate the NEET indicator with other social and economic metrics to study drivers of youth disengagement.
• Benchmark national performance on female youth inclusion against regional averages using this standardized metric.

Strengths

• Provides a focused indicator on a critical demographic (female youth aged 15-18).
• Originates from the World Bank's LAC Equity Lab, a recognized authority on regional development data.

Limitations

• Specific row count, time range, and geographic coverage are unknown from the input.
• Limited to a single, aggregated metric without underlying demographic or socioeconomic breakdowns.

Provenance

Source

World Bank, LAC Equity Lab

Geography

Likely focuses on Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region, but specific coverage is unknown.