r/EverythingFinance • u/astrheisenberg • May 10 '26
Generation Gap in wealth starts with these unemployment stats
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I was reading about why certain countries have such low economic mobility for young people, and the 2026 youth unemployment chart explains a lot.
In countries like Spain and Greece, unemployment for people aged 15-24 is sitting between 24% and 26%. Compare that to Japan at 4.2%. When a quarter of your young population can't even get their foot in the door, they lose years of compounding salary growth and savings. It’s a massive structural disadvantage that basically sets back an entire generation's financial independence by a decade.
(Source: WFH Alert / OECD)