Young people are living in an unemployment crisis in these 47 countries

Since the global financial crisis, high youth unemployment has been a problem across the world.

But even though the issue is widespread, the causes and the effects vary greatly within each country.

Business Insider took a closer look at the economic and geopolitical factors that have led to continued high youth unemployment in 47 countries, as well as some of the major regional and global trends.

Given that many of the countries on our list do not release official monthly (or even annual) economic data, we used the estimated 2014 youth-unemployment rates from the International Labour Organization.