NewsWhore
10-31-2008, 05:30 PM
The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that 5.1 million young people in Central America are unemployed, and this figure includes 627,000 jobless youth in the DR. According to the ILO report, the DR has the highest youth unemployment rate in the region with a rate of 30.4%, followed by Panama (18.9%) and Costa Rica (13.9%). The report also indicates that of the 10 million young people between the ages of 15 and 24 living in the region, a little less than half, or 4.5%, are economically active. In all, an estimated 2.3 million young people in Panama, Costa Rica and the DR neither work nor study.
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