In Table 2. we compared youth unemployment rate by educational attainment level for seven countries with the highest YUE rate (see also Figure 1.). Here we can see an increase in 2013 of educational attainment levels 3-8 for all selected. When we compare year 2008 and 2013 the most conspicuous changes are identified for level 0-2. Cyprus, Greece, Spain and Croatia observed more than 30.0 % growth. As for Slovakia, there is a decrease of unemployed youth with less than primary, primary and lower secondary education in 2008 and also 2013. Nevertheless, still up-to 50.8% of unemployed young people has lower education attainment. Among the surveyed countries, Greece has the highest share of young people with third and fourth level of education (60.9%) and Croatia shows the highest share of young people with higher education attainment at levels 5-8 (61.1%). In 2013, six from
seven selected countries account the highest percentage of young unemployed people with less than primary, primary and lower secondary (levels 0-2).