The number of unemployed people around the world reached an
estimated 201.8 million in 2013, said the United Nations’ labour agency
on Monday, warning that new job opportunities were not being created
fast enough to absorb a growing workforce.
In its annual jobs outlook report, Global Employment Trends 2014, the International Labor Organization said that the current economic recovery
was too weak to tackle joblessness, with youth unemployment a
particular concern – as nearly 13.1 percent of people aged 15 to 24 were
jobless, almost three times as high as the adult unemployment rate.
The problem "is particularly high in the Middle East and North Africa,
as well as in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean and Southern
Europe," the report noted, highlighting a growing proportion of young
people not in employment, education or training (NEETs)
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