Spanish youth unemployment climbed to 51.1 percent in March, from 50.9 percent the previous month. This number was 6.2 percentage points higher than the 44.9 percent youth unemployment rate a year ago.
Compared with Spanish numbers and the euro area's 22.1 percent rate, America's 16.4 percent youth unemployment rate seems low. Germany, Austria, The Netherlands and Malta are the only countries in the EU27 that have youth unemployment rates lower than the U.S.
Here's a chart from Scott Barber and Thomson Reuters showing youth unemployment in the eurozone:
Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook.
Join the conversation about this story »