9.25 million working-age adults weren’t looking for a job, also known as being economically inactive, in the last quarter of 2023. It’s a troubling rise in inactivity that has been supercharged by young people. By the end of last year, 4.5% of 16-24-year-olds were not actively looking for work. This compares with just 0.1% of young people registered as inactive in the first quarter of 2020.