The Countries Where Youth Are Doing The Best And The Worst
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The Countries Where Youth Are Doing The Best And The Worst
Which countries are the best for people under 25--who now make up half the world's population?
Half of the world’s population is now under the age of 25, and
1.8 billion people are between the ages of 10 and 25. This is the
largest youth generation ever to exist. Yet few well-being measures and metrics
focus specifically on how this age group--the one that has fueled
societal and governmental change around the globe in recent years--is
faring and feeling about their lives.
The first Global Youth Wellbeing Index
is an effort to provide baseline data so that countries can be compared
and progress (or lack thereof) can be followed. At a time when nearly
half of youth are unemployed or underemployed, this kind of tracking is
more important than ever.
The Index, put together by the Center for Strategic International
Studies, the International Youth Foundation and Hilton Worldwide, gauges
30 countries that represent about 70% of the world’s youth. It looks at
six areas: citizen participation, economic opportunity, education,
health, information and communications technology, and safety and
security.
Overall, the Index report found that 85% of the youth represented in
the 30 countries are experiencing “lower levels" of well-being than the
average. Across the board, youth are strongest in health and weakest in
economic opportunity. The results also show that well-being is
subjective: Young people’s evaluation of their own well-being didn’t
always align with the objective data.
Australia (score=0.752 out of 1) and then Sweden top the rankings;
Nigeria, with a score of 0.375 out of 1, ranked the lowest of the 30.
The top seven countries classified as “higher-income” by the World Bank,
but income wasn’t always a predictor of rank. Russia (No. 25) and South
Africa (No. 23) scored relatively low compared to their economic
activity, showing that growth doesn’t always benefit a country’s entire
population. Similarly, Vietnam (No. 11)--with strong policies--managed
to outperform countries at similar income tiers.
The U.S., with 64 million youth--representing 20% of the country’s
population--only came in sixth on the overall list, ranking first for
economic opportunity, third for education and information technology
access, but only eighth for safety, 12th for health and a poor 20th
(just ahead of Vietnam) for citizen participation.
The index comes as the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals are set to
expire in 2015, and as the global community evaluates its progress and
follow-up opportunities. The report’s authors call this a “pivotal”
moment. “Youth must be at the forefront of that global agenda,” they
write. “The Index can help us make that case.”
View the full interactive map here to dive deeper into the data.
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