Statistical data about the youth of the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country

2025

• International LGTBIQ+ Pride Day:  Nine out of ten young people in the Basque Country are in favour of same-sex marriage (92.1%).

• The unemployment rate of Basque youth aged 16 to 29 in the fourth quarter of 2024 is the lowest in the last fifteen years

• 56% of young people say they have read a book for entertainment in the last month

• The employment rate of young people aged 16 to 29 in the Basque Country in the first quarter of 2025 is 45.8%

• Six out of ten young people aged 15 to 29 are interested in issues related to the European Union (59%)

• Museum attendance increased from 2022 to 2024 among young people in the Basque Country

• Tobacco : in fifteen years, the percentage of Basque 15-29-year-olds who smoke daily has halved

• Environment: Three out of four young people in the Basque Country carry their own bag when they go shopping (75.0%)

• Loneliness: In 2023, 7.3% of young people aged 15-29 in the Basque Country said that they always or often felt lonely and 10.2% showed a lack of social support

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