A group of college women in the United States, 1973. Youth in motion term adolescence is often considered synonymous with youth.

Youth is the time of life when one is young. Youth is an experience that may shape an individual’s level of dependency, which can be marked in various ways according to different cultural perspectives. Around the world, the English terms– youth, adolescent, teenager, kid, youngster and young person, are interchanged, often meaning the same thing, but they are occasionally differentiated. The United Nations defines youth as persons between the ages of roughly 15 and 24, with all UN statistics based on this range, the UN states education as a source for these statistics.

Although linked to biological processes of development and aging, youth is also defined as a social position that reflects the meanings different cultures and societies give to individuals between childhood and adulthood. 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 life of ease. Robert Kennedy Youth is the stage of constructing the self-concept. Students of Peru discuss agricultural issues. In much of sub-Saharan Africa, the term “youth” is associated with young men from 12 to 30 or 35 years of age. In Brazil, the term youth refers to people of both sexes from 15 to 29 years old. It is also shaped by the notion of adolescence that has entered everyday life in Brazil through a discourse on children’s rights.