The number of people unemployed worldwide between the ages of 15 to 24 is projected to fall by two million from 2021 to 2022, according to the report from the International Labor Organization, a United Nations agency.

But that’s still six million more youths unemployed worldwide than in 2019, before the Covid pandemic, according to the report.

Young women are nearly 1.5 times less likely than men to be unemployed, the report found, with 27.4% of women worldwide expected to be employed in 2022 compared to 40.3% of young men—and this gender gap was the largest among lower-middle income countries and the smallest in high-income countries.

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