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The youth employment rate in the European Union reached an all-time low of 32.9% in the first half of 2011. [37] Of the countries in the European Union, Germany sticks outs with its low rate of 7.9%. [38] Some critics argue that the decrease of the youth unemployment began even before the economic downturn, countries such as Greece and Spain.
Unemployment rate (2021) [1] This is a list of countries by unemployment rate.Methods of calculation and presentation of unemployment rate vary from country to country. Some countries count insured unemployed only, some count those in receipt of welfare benefit only, some count the disabled and other permanently unemployable people, some countries count those who choose (and are financially ...
This is a list of countries by employment rate, the proportion of employed adults at working age. The definition of "working age" varies: Many sources, including the OECD, use 15–64 years old, [1] but EUROSTAT uses 20–64 years old, [2] the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics uses 16 years old and older (no cut-off at 65 and up), [3] and the Office for National Statistics of the United ...
Youth unemployment levels vary from 53.6% in Eswatini and 52.3% in South Africa, to 3.3% in Rwanda in 2016. [11] As age within the working population increases, so do levels of employment, as youths are three times more likely to be unemployed than adults (aged 25 or over), which demonstrates an anti-youth bias across African labour markets. [12]
The majority leader of the Kenyan Senate, who drafted the bill, said in a post on X that the proposed change was in the “best interest of the ever growing number of unemployed youth” in the ...
Article 260 of the Kenyan Constitution of 2010 defines youth as those between the ages of 18 and 34. [241] According to the 2019 Population and Census results, 75 percent of the 47.6 million population is under the age of 35, making Kenya a country of the youth. [242] Youth unemployment and underemployment in Kenya has become a problem. [243]
The labour force participation rate in Kenya has been constant from 1997 to 2010 for both women and men. In 1997, 65% of women were employed in some type of labour and 76% of men were employed. In 2005, 60% of women and 70% of men were in the labour force, increasing slightly to 61% of women and 72% of men in 2010. [103]
This was an increase of a factor of 2.5 over 30 years, or an average growth rate of more than 3 percent per year. The population growth rate has been reported as reduced during the 2000s, and was estimated at 2.7 percent (as of 2010), resulting in an estimate of 46.5 million in 2016. [5] As of 2024 kenya has 770,255 refugees and asylum seekers [6]