25 Jan 2001

World Employment Report 2001
International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva, Switzerland
Self-description: 'The World Employment Report 2001: Life at Work in the Information Economy' finds "that at the end of 2000 some 160 million workers are unemployed, most of them first-time jobseekers. [...]. Of these 160 million unemployed workers, about 50 million are in the industrialized countries [...]. In addition about 500 million workers are unable to earn enough to keep their families above the US$ 1 a day poverty line. These are almost entirely in the developing world [...] Over the next ten years, although the growth rate of the world's labour force will slow down, there will be still some 460 million new, young jobseekers. Only 3 per cent of them will be in all parts of Europe and North America. Two-thirds will be in Asia [...]."
[An annex to the Report lists statistics on (a) Information technology indicators (Internet hosts, Internet users, Estimated PCs, Main telephone lines, Mobile cellular subscribers, Digital cellular subscribers, Television receivers, Cable TV subscribers); (b) Labour force participation rate; (c) Employment to population ratio; (d) Unemployment rate, in all countries of the world including those in Eastern Asia, South-central Asia, South-eastern Asia, Pacific Melanesia, Other Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia for the years 1990, 1995, and 1999 - ed.]
URL http://www.ilo.org/public/english/support/publ/wer/index2.htm
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