International Unemployment Rates Predicted to Rise

A new report from the International Labour Organization predicts growing worldwide unemployment

Posted January 29, 2009

• 51 million: Estimated number of workers who could lose their jobs in 2009
• 18 million: Estimated best-case-scenario number of job losses for 2009
• 198 million: Estimated best-case-scenario total number of unemployed in 2009
• 6: Percent estimate of the workers who were unemployed but looking for a job in 2008
• 7.1: Worst-case-scenario percentage estimate of unemployed workers in 2009