Timor-Leste key labour market indicators December 2008

This document focuses in the following data and figures which have been compiled by the Labour Market Information Department of the Secretariat of State for Vocational Training and Employment (SEFOPE), as support document to the progress report of Labour Market Information Systems Project.

Timor-Leste has currently only a nascent market economy. Presenting a typical set of labour market indicators thus can produce a distorted picture of the realities of life in Timor-Leste. In an effort to redress this, the final section “Timor Leste in Numbers” pulls together a variety of figures which illustrate the nature of the challenges facing the people, the government, NGOs and UN agencies in creating a functioning market economy that will provide enough jobs, and sufficient income, to the very young population of Timor-Leste.