Mental health issues are keeping Britain’s younger population out of work at record levels, at a time when the country struggles with a worsening economic crisis, Bloomberg reports, citing official data.
According to data compiled by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the country’s young working age people are suffering from long-term health issues that are keeping them out of work at increasingly alarming rates.
The ONS report shows there was a 29% increase in 16 to 24 year olds, citing long-term sickness as a reason for being economically inactive, and a 42% jump among people aged 25 to 34 who said the same. The data was reported for the second quarter of 2022, compared to the same period before the pandemic.
