United Kingdom: Youth unemployment figures (16-17) 2000-2017, by gender

The data displays the monthly unemployment figure for the ages 16 to 17 in the UK from 2000 to 2017, broken down by gender. The peak for this seventeen year period was in 2011, at 114,000 unemployed males and 102,000 unemployed females. In the most recent surveyed time period, there were 60 thousand unemployed males and 58 thousand unemployed females of this age group.