There are more than 35 million young people aged 16 to 29 who are NEET across the 22 nations of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The OECD Skills Outlook 2015 report warns that around half of all these NEETs are out of school but are not looking for work. They are “likely to have dropped off the radar of their country’s education, social and labour market systems”, it adds.
The report states that more than 40 per cent of those who left school before completing their upper secondary education have poor numeracy and literacy skills.
Furthermore, there is too big a gap between work and education, with less than 50 per cent of students on vocational education and training programmes participating in some kind of work-based learning.
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