The rate of young people neither in employment nor education and training, called the "NEET" rate, was over the 17.6% rate for the European Union as a whole.

The NEET rate for young males in Hungary stood at 10.1% but was 29.2% for females.

The NEET rate was 17.4% in Czechia, 16.7% in Poland and 20.8% in Slovakia.