Youth unemployment rising, report warns (предупреждать)

Youth unemployment rising, report warns (предупреждать)

Almost 13% of young people worldwide are out of work, and their situation is unlikely to improve for four years, a report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) says. (Международная организация труда)

The ILO wants governments to make job creation a priority.

Since 2007, the number of young people without jobs has risen by four million, the Global Employment Trends for Youth (всемирные тренды профессий для молодежи) report says.

Almost 13% of people aged between 15 and 24 - or almost 75 million - have no work.

In the European Union, one in five young people are looking for work, the report claims.

Some 27.9% of youths were unemployed in North Africa last year following the Arab Spring uprisings - a rise of five percentage points on 2010.

In the Middle East, the figure stood at 26.5% in the report's regional breakdown.

"Even in East Asia, perhaps the most economically dynamic region, the unemployment rate was 2.8 times higher for young people than for adults," the report said.

But, the ILO report reveals (разоблачать), the true picture of youth unemployment is even more pessimistic.

Many young people are extending their time in higher education because they cannot find jobs.

Others are taking part-time unskilled work because they cannot find work in the fields they trained for.

The ILO says that more than six million young people worldwide have given up looking for work and are becomingly increasingly detached (изолированы) from society.

"The youth unemployment crisis can be beaten but only if job creation for young people becomes a key priority in policymaking and private sector investment picks up significantly," said Jose Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, executive director (главный директор) of the ILO's employment sector.

BBC News Europe, 22 May 2012

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