The study of 1,600 16 to 25-year-olds, carried out by the charity Central YMCA, asked them about the biggest challenges and threats they faced.
The responses have been collated into an index of issues, with those most commonly cited as harmful scoring 100.
Top of the list was a lack of employment opportunities, which scored 100, while failing to succeed in the education system scored 92 and issues relating to body image 86.
Other risks ranking highly included family breakdown (scoring 81), substance abuse (78), a lack of affordable housing (73), issues relating to social media (68), and crime (49).
At the other end of the rankings were issues that the young people did not consider to be as harmful, including a lack of a political voice, which scored just 5, a worsening environment (14), and sexual health (27).
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