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December 2020

  1. International Volunteers Day

    Volunteering reached new heights in March and April 2020

    05 December 2020

    In normal times, a billion people volunteer their time and energy each year, providing unpaid help to others. Has the COVID-19 pandemic led to even more volunteering worldwide?

October 2020

  1. World Statistics Day

    Connect the world with data we can trust

    20 October 2020

    The COVID-19 crisis underlines the importance of having data we can trust, says ILO Director-General Guy Ryder in a statement to mark World Statistics Day.

  2. World Statistics Day

    Building better gender data for the future

    20 October 2020

    The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare not only inequalities in the world of work, including between women and men, but it has also further emphasised the gender data gaps that hamper our understanding of the depth, nature and evolution of those inequalities.

August 2020

  1. © ILO STAT 2022

    COVID-19 and higher education

    Education pays off, but you have to be patient

    24 August 2020

    The pandemic is making us rethink and re-organize education. Workers with higher educational attainment may expect to be able to find a job (and a quality job, for that matter) as soon as they become available. But is that so?

October 2018

  1. 20th International Conference of Labour Statisticians

    Landmark ILO Conference sets standards to measure new and invisible forms of work

    19 October 2018

    International Conference of Labour Statisticians adopts unique statistical roadmap to measure progress on UN’s 2030 Agenda and help policy makers create better policies on the future of work.

  2. 20th International Conference of Labour Statisticians

    “Making the invisible visible”

    09 October 2018

    The 20th ILO International Conference of Labour Statisticians opened in Geneva on 10 October 2018. An interview with Rafael Diez de Medina, Director of ILO Statistics, about some of the key issues on the agenda.

March 2016

  1. International Women's Day

    ILO to issue new report on the status of women in the world of work

    01 March 2016

January 2016

  1. © Salvatore Valastro 2022

    World Employment and Social Outlook – Trends 2016

    Global unemployment projected to rise in both 2016 and 2017

    19 January 2016

    Despite falling unemployment levels in some developed economies, new ILO analysis - World Employment and Social Outlook (WESO) - shows the global job crisis is not likely to end, especially in emerging economies.

December 2015

  1. Media Advisory

    ILO to issue new global estimates of migrant workers and migrant domestic workers

    11 December 2015

November 2014

  1. Report

    The ILO to publish the Global Wage Report 2014-2015

    27 November 2014