In Britain, many of them are part of the NEET (not in education, employment or training).
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Among 16- to 18-year-olds, 153, 000 are Neet - the lowest figure in more than a decade for this quarter.
Some 10.3% of this age group were recorded as Neet, compared to 9.8% in the same month of 2011.
They show that over-18s are worst affected - with almost a fifth of 19-24-year-olds (19.6%) classified as Neet this summer.
About one in seven of those aged from 16 to 24 are Neet and about one in 11 of 16- to 18-year-olds.
The number of young people not in education, employment of training (Neet) fluctuate with the seasons and peaks over the summer months.
With 968, 000 young people out of education and employment or Neet, it is the second highest June rate for more than a decade.
He said the authority wanted to make sure no-one in Surrey was classed as "not in employment, education or training", or Neet, by 2015.
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There are still more than a million young people not in education, employment or training (Neet) in England, despite a dip in the numbers.
Official figures for the last quarter of 2012 show there were 893, 000 people aged from 16 to 24 not in education, employment or training (Neet).
The Neet rate reached a record high in third quarter of 2011, with 1, 163, 000 young people aged 16 to 24 out of education or work.
Your programme showed both sides and NEET's as they are called on benefit should be asked to give their choice of job whether, retail, factory, office etc.
Figures from the council said Surrey had less than four in a hundred young people classified as Neet, compared with the national average of more than six in a hundred.
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Pupils who were given a D grade rather than the expected C grade could mean that difference between staying on at school or dropping out and becoming a Neet, said Kenny Fredericks, head of George Green's School in east London.
The economic downturn of the past few years has seen the number of young people leaving education and struggling to find work grow to an extent whereby the acronym "Neet" has been coined for them - standing for "not in education, employment or training".
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