This brief examines the growth of digital labour platforms and provides updated estimates on the number of active platforms and workers engaged through them. It highlights persistent measurement gaps and underscores the need for internationally agreed statistical standards to improve comparability and inform policy.
Digital labour platforms: Number of platforms and workers Read More »
The latest global estimates challenge the idea that volunteering only happens through organisations and demonstrates the impact of everyday, informal, and unpaid civic action worldwide.
New global estimates reveal that 2.1 billion people volunteer monthly Read More »
Online resources for data producers and users to make the most of administrative data sources for labour statistics, in the absence of or in complementarity with Labour Force Surveys.
Establishment surveys for labour statistics Read More »
Information from eight countries reveals direct, person-to-person help to be the world’s most common—and least visible—form of volunteering.
Everyday helpers: What new data reveal about trends in direct volunteering Read More »
The main objective of the Academy is to better equip and situate national and international stakeholders in the new SDG statistical monitoring system in the context of the main outcomes of the 20th and 21st ICLS recommendations.
Labour Market Statistics and Analysis Academy Read More »
On the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, the ILO explores progress and gaps in addressing all forms of poverty for workers, their families and communities.
Those left behind: the forgotten in the fight against global poverty Read More »
As we mark World Tourism Day, we reflect on the persistent labour and skills shortages that continue to constrain the recovery of tourism sectors across the world.
Tourism jobs in the aftermath of the pandemic: skills and labour in short supply Read More »
This report evaluates key indicators used to measure the global progress and ongoing challenges in achieving social justice, building on the premise of the ILO Constitution that “universal and lasting peace can be established only if it is based upon social justice”.
The State of Social Justice 2025 Read More »
