Youth unemployment is likely to rise globally to 12.9 per cent by 2017 as per UN

Updated on: Thursday, September 06, 2012

The UN's labor office says youth unemployment is likely to rise globally to 12.9 per cent by 2017 as more young people leave the work force and the euro crisis spreads to emerging economies.

The current rate of unemployment among youths aged 15 to 24 is 12.7 per cent globally.
 
An International Labor Office report today said the highest regional rate above 25 per cent is expected to remain in North Africa and the Middle East.
 
However, Ekkehard Ernst, the report's lead author, said that large numbers of young people also are expected to completely give up looking for work.
 
That means the actual number of youths who count as "unemployed" is expected to fall globally from 74 million in 2012 to 73 million in 2017.

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