Digital labour platforms: Number of platforms and workers
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.
ILO global estimates on international migrants in the labour force: Figures at a glance
See the headline results from the latest edition of the ILO modelled estimates for a quick overview of global and regional findings.
New global estimates reveal that 2.1 billion people volunteer monthly
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.
Employment and Social Trends 2026
This report examines the state of global labour markets, highlighting stable headline employment alongside stalled progress in job quality and widening inequalities. The report analyses productivity, demographic and economic pressures shaping work in the year ahead and outlines the challenges to achieving more inclusive growth.
Everyday helpers: What new data reveal about trends in direct volunteering
Information from eight countries reveals direct, person-to-person help to be the world’s most common—and least visible—form of volunteering.
Those left behind: the forgotten in the fight against global poverty
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.
Tourism jobs in the aftermath of the pandemic: skills and labour in short supply
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.
The State of Social Justice 2025
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”.
Casting a light on dependent contractors: a new statistical and increasingly important category
While dependent contractors have long existed as a group of workers, they have only been made visible in official statistics recently.
Empowering Africa’s youth: the need for more vocational training and on-the-job learning
Expanding access to technical and vocational education, coupled with work-based learning, is crucial to building a more resilient and adaptable workforce among Africa’s youngest workers.