Dataviz: Employment and Social Trends 2026
The WESO report’s dataviz presents the underlying ILO estimates used to examine the state of global labour markets, highlighting stable headline employment alongside stalled progress in job quality and widening inequalities. Indicators cover the labour force, employment, labour underutilization and working poverty.
The complex link between education and labour underutilization
On World Youth Skills Day, we explore the hardships of university graduates to find decent jobs around the world.
Unemployment rate
This snapshot presents global and regional trends along with the most recent country-level figures, based on the latest statistical standards and definitions adopted at the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) (ILO, 2013), as well as the previous standards from the 13th ICLS (ILO, 1982). In some cases, such as for high-income countries, these […]
The plight of older workers in labour underutilization
The International Day of Older Persons gives us an opportunity to delve into the labour underutilization patterns of seniors. While their unemployment rates are generally rather low, they are hiding other more prevalent forms of labour underutilization including job-search discouragement.
UN Global SDG Indicators Database
Labour Force Statistics (LFS and RURBAN databases)
Concise description of concepts and definitions, uses, sources and limitations for labour force statistics in various databases (LFS, STLFS, RURBAN).
Work Statistics – 19th ICLS (WORK database)
Concise description of concepts and definitions, uses, sources and limitations for (paid and unpaid) work statistics based on the 19th ICLS standards.
Labour Market-Related SDG Indicators (ILOSDG database)
Concise description of concepts and definitions, uses, sources and limitations for labour market-related sustainable development indicators.
COVID-19 and the Sustainable Development Goals: reversing progress towards decent work for all
The pandemic wreaked havoc on people’s lives and societies, but how far did it set the global community back in reaching the SDG targets related to decent work and economic growth?
Avoid these 5 rookie mistakes when using ILO databases
Containing more than 100 million data points, the ILOSTAT portal is truly a gold mine for seasoned data scientists, but it can be challenging to use for those with less experience. Here we explain five typical rookie mistakes so you can avoid them.