Around 13% of Young Hungarians out of Work and Not in Training
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Around 12.9% of Hungarians between the ages of 20 and 34 were unemployed and not participating in an education or training program last year, data compiled by Eurostat show.
The rate of young people neither in employment nor education and training - called the "NEET" rate - was under the 14.5% European Union average.
The NEET rate for young men in Hungary stood at 9.3% but was 16.6% for women.
Hungary's NEET rate was down from 24.2% a decade earlier.
The NEET rate was 15.9% in Czechia, 12.2% in Poland and 15.1% in Slovakia last year.
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