Published Wednesday, 16 November 2011
Youth unemployment has broken through the 1 million mark to a record high and the UK's wider unemployment rate has climbed to a 15-year high.
Official figures showed there were 1.02 million unemployed 16 to 24-year-olds between July and September.
The unemployment rate for 16 to 24-year-olds was more than double the rate for the wider population at 21.9%.
The Office for National Statistics said that there were 2.62 million unemployed people in the quarter, the highest total since 1994. That left the unemployment rate at 8.3%, the highest since 1996 and above economists' forecasts for 8.2%.
The youth unemployment level and rate were the highest since comparable records began in 1992.
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