World Social Protection Report 2017-19

This ILO flagship report provides a global overview on recent trends in social protection systems, including social protection floors. Based on new data, it offers a broad range of global, regional and country data on social protection coverage, benefits and public expenditures on social protection.

Trends in collective bargaining coverage: Stability, erosion or decline?

This issue brief examines differences in collective bargaining coverage for 75 countries. Collective bargaining over wages and other working conditions between unions and employers is a key labour market institution in democratic societies. The coverage and impact of this institution varies over time and across countries. 

Report on Labour Migration Statistics in Africa in 2015

The broad objective of the report is to compile data on labour migration and support Member States in better understanding the data for the purpose of policy formulation.

Global Estimates of Child Labour: Results and trends, 2012-2016

The current report, the fifth edition of the ILO’s quadrennial report series on global estimates of child labour, charts how far we have come and how far we still have to go to honour this commitment to ending child labour. The report describes the scale and key characteristics of child labour in the world today, as well as changes in the global child labour situation over time. It also discusses key policy priorities in the campaign to reach the 2025 target. The report, and the global estimation exercise that underpins it, form part of a broader inter-agency effort under Alliance 8.7 to measure and monitor progress towards target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals.