In Guadeloupe, 27.3% of young people between the ages of 15 and 29 have no job, no education, no training, “double the number in metropolitan France”, according to a study by Insee published this Thursday.
Of these 16,900 Guadeloupeans, about 57% are looking for work and 22% want to work but do not adopt an active attitude, reveals the study that elaborates a typology of these young people in a Neet situation (English acronym for “neither in studies, nor in employment, nor in training”).
One “Neet in four is a young father far from employment”, also specifies the study, of which 95% are women, while they represent only 48.4% of all young people in a Nini situation.
In addition, 21% of the ninis are young graduates, mostly higher education, “in difficulty of professional integration.” Half have been unemployed for less than a year.
The overseas territories in question
Guadeloupe is not the only territory experiencing this phenomenon of young people in a Nini situation. “The situation is similar in Martinique” with 25.6% of young people affected and “the proportion of Neet is higher in Réunion and Guyana”, with 30.2% and 36.7% Neet respectively, writes the Insee in his study, explaining that these differences with the metropolis are explained by “the smallness of the territory and the narrowness of the economic market”.
It adds that if “8.3% of young people between the ages of 15 and 19 are without employment or training, 38.4% are between the ages of 20-24 and 43.7% between the ages of 25-29”, specifying that at the “national level this evolution is more contained” from 5.7% of the youngest segment to 18.1% of the oldest.
Source: BFM TV
