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Regional outlook
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Focus on:Employment trends in North Africa [Video interview with ILO economist in Cairo, Dorothea Schmidt] |
Global Employment Trends
Global Employment Trends 2012: Preventing a deeper jobs crisis
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According to the 2012 of the ILO report on Global Employment Trends (GET), the world faces the “urgent challenge” of creating 600 million productive jobs over the next decade in order to generate sustainable growth and maintain social cohesion. The GET report offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including unemployment, youth employment and working poverty.
- Start the animated infographic for the main findings of the report
- Read the press release
Facts and figures
| Interview with Steven Kapsos, labour economist at the ILO, on facts and figures describing the global and regional employment picture. |
Global unemployment trends and projections, 2002–2016
- Female employment-to-population ratio by region and age group: Evolution between 2000 and 2010
- Unemployment rates 2011: Total vs. adjusted for reduced labour force participation (world and regions)
