GENEVA - More than 470 million people worldwide are currently unemployed or underemployed, the UN said on Monday , warning that a lack of access to decent jobs was contributing to social unrest.
This year, the number of people registered as unemployed is expected to rise to 190.5 million up from 188 million in 2019, ILO said in its annual World Employment and Social Outlook report. "For millions of working people, it is becoming increasingly difficult I think to build better lives through work," ILO chief Guy Ryder told reporters in Geneva.
"Labour market conditions are contributing to... this erosion of social cohesion in many of our societies," he said, referring to mass demonstrations in places like Lebanon and Chile. And in 2019, more than 630 million people - a fifth of the global working population - lived in so-called working poverty, meaning they made less than US$3.20 per day in purchasing power.
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