Skills are essential for youth to make the transition into adult life, to contribute to knowledge-based and skills-based economies, and to participate in society. As such, they allow individuals to become engaged in a country’s growth and development. Education serves as one of the main sources of acquiring skills. This chapter analyses the educational attainment and skills endowment of youth in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region by providing a rich statistical portrait of youth education participation and performance. The chapter provides an overview of education attainment, as well as an analysis of the reading, mathematics, science and technology aptitudes of youth in the past decade. It also describes the main results of youth training programmes, one of the region’s main policy responses to endow early education leavers with skills to participate in labour markets. Finally, the chapter sketches a set of policy goals and recommendations to improve education and provide better skills to youth in LAC countries.