the highest unemployment rates are among the younger people to years of age and are four times those of the adult population see figure a the unemployment rates reported on the basis of household surveys in colombia panama and the dominican republic included hidden unemployment the figures for argentina correspond to greater buenos aires for bolivia to eight main cities and el alto for uruguay to urban areas and for paraguay to asuncion and central department as reported in a recent study by eclac and the iberoamerican youth organization ou on the current situation of young people eclacoij it is precisely the poorest young people who are most affected by unemployment around the average rate of unemployment among young people between and years of age belonging to the poorest per capita income quintile was slightly over a percentage which decreases gradually to reach among young people in the richest quintile