Africa’s employment landscape
2019-11-19
Africa’s employment landscape affects almost 500 million workers. Are there any changes in store for them?
Tech’s persistent gender gap
2019-11-12
Tech’s persistent gender gap is well documented, but it might surprise you to learn that the gulf transcends national wealth and development lines.
Work and employment are not synonyms
2019-10-29
Work and employment may be used indistinctly in everyday language, but for the labour market they mean very different things. Employment is a very specific form of work. Other forms of work include volunteer work, unpaid trainee work and work for own use.
These are the countries with the most teachers
2019-10-04
Worldwide, there is large variation across countries in the number of teachers relative to the population. At one extreme, Iceland has 45 teachers for every 1,000 people. At the other extreme, the United Republic of Tanzania has only 2 for every 1,000 people.
The working poor – or how a job is no guarantee of decent living conditions
2019-05-22
This slideshow presents the main results of a study based on ILO’s global estimates of employment by economic class (including the working poverty rate) featured in our latest issue of Spotlight on Work Statistics.
Labour market access – a persistent challenge for youth around the world
2019-04-01
The fifth issue of our series Spotlight on work statistics uses the first ever global estimates of youth not in employment, education or training along with other youth labour market indicators to explore the situation of youth in labour markets around the world, and unveil the additional challenges they face.
Paid employment vs vulnerable employment
2018-06-16
Find out the latest trends in employment by status category and how paid employment compares to vulnerable employment around the world in Paid employment vs vulnerable employment, the third issue of our new series Spotlight on work statistics.
Where are the jobs?
2018-05-12
Learn about employment patterns across sectors and occupations in Where are the jobs?, the second issue of our new series Spotlight on work statistics.