Geneva ¨C Global youth unemployment rose last year, the United Nations said Tuesday, with some of the steepest increases seen in high-income countries as artificial intelligence begins to change the jobs market.
The tentative, short-lived recovery in youth labor markets that followed the Covid-19 pandemic has stalled, the U.N.¡¯s labor agency said.
The International Labour Organization said the global youth unemployment rate rose from 12.3% in 2024 to 12.4% last year ¡ª equivalent to 67 million unemployed people aged 15 to 24.
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