The data displays the monthly unemployment rate as a percentage of the total workforce, by gender, for the ages 16 to 17 in the UK from 2000 to 2017. Such unemployment peaked in 2011 at 41.8% for males and 34.4 for females. Overall unemployment rate for male youths increased by 26% during that time, with unemployment rate for female youths increasing by 4.3%. These findings were also reflected in a different survey on youth unemployment of those between the ages of 18 to 24. In the last 16 years, youth unemployment for that age group had risen by roughly 10%.
