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The 2014 study titled 'Youth Victimisation and Offending in Jamaica: An Analysis of Serious
Violent Crimes', which was done by Senior Superintendent Norman Heywood and Deputy
Superintendent Michael Lawrence, shows that persons aged 15 to 24 years, account for 19.5 per
cent of the total population in Jamaica. Of this percentage, males represent 51 per cent or 268,829
of the 530,393 youth in this age range.
According to the study, 61 per cent of unattached or unemployed youth are between the ages 20 to
24 years and 96 per cent between 17 and 24 years old. The study further disclosed that only 12 per
cent of this group was willing or available to work within the next year.
But, alarmingly, the data revealed that 90 per cent of unattached youth outside the labour force had
no skills training and approximately 70 per cent had no training or academic qualification and were
in need of remedial education.
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