disambiguation: Youth

Around the world the terms "youth", "adolescent", "teenager", and "young person" are interchanged, often meaning the same thing, occasionally differentiated. Youth generally refers to a time of life that is neither childhood or adulthood, but rather, somewhere in-between. Youth also identifies a particular mindset of attitude, as in "He is very youthful". The term youth is also related to being young.

"This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease." - Robert Kennedy

Age limits

The age in which a person is considered a "youth," and thus eligible for special treatment under the law and throughout society varies around the world.

* "Youth... those persons falling between the ages of 15 and 24 years inclusive." - United Nations General Assembly
* "Time in a person's life between childhood and adulthood. The term "youth" in general refers to those who are between the ages of 15 to 24." - World Bank.
* The Commonwealth Youth Programme works with "young people (aged 15-29)."
* "A person... under 21 years of age." - National Highway Traffic Safety Administration[8]
* "People between the ages of 20 and 25." - Government of Tasmania.


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