4. Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Percentage of youth of total population: 22.2%
We are continuing our list of countries with the highest youth population with Laos that is not what you would call an urbanized nation. In 2015, 61% of its population was estimated to be residing in rural areas, as per the World Bank and even today, some of these people do not have access to proper sanitation. One would think that this would render the youth of the country uneducated and unemployed, but the truth is far from this assumption. This source states that 90.23% of the youth of the country is literate and merely 1.4% is unemployed. The Lao People’s Revolutionary Youth Union and its thousands of members are also quite active in the community.
