Employment Trends (EMP/TRENDS)

United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

undevgoal There are over 88 million unemployed youth around the world, together comprising nearly half of the world's total unemployment. The problem is especially pronounced in developing regions, where young people are over 4 times more likely to find themselves unemployed when compared with older workers.

Youth often face major hurdles when competing for employment. From lack of work experience, to a deficiency in skill-specific training and education, the result for youth is long average job search times and high incidences of temporary and part-time work, often in positions not covered by labour legislation. In coordination with the Youth Employment Network (YEN), the ILO's Employment Trends Team is working on the development of new indicators to better assess world and regional youth employment trends to help policymakers analyse and address the pressing needs among youth workers today.

View the ILO's Employment Trends Team documents prepared for the Expert Group Meeting on the Monitoring of the Millennium Declaration Goals (MDGs) of the Millennium Declaration.
Documents on World and Regional Trends in Youth Employment
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0Last update: 9 June 2004