Kiribati in the Pacific was the country with the lowest average weekly working hours per employee in 2022, with the most recent value showing that the population of Kiribati worked on average less than ** hours per week. Second came Vanuatu at nearly ** hours per week, with Micronesia following in third. On the other hand, Gambia had the highest average weekly working hours worldwide.

In the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the average Colombian worker put in the most hours in 2022, with 2,400 hours, or 46.3 hours per week. German workers spent the least amount of time on the job, with 1,340 hours on average that year, equal to 25.8 hours per week.

The Bahamas had the highest female employment-to-population ratio in the world in 2023 at 90 percent of the women in working age in some form of employment. Iceland had the second highest female employment rate of the countries, reaching 81 percent.

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Statistics illustrates most promising supplying countries of machine-tools; n.e.s. in heading no. 8465, for working wood, cork, bone, hard rubber, hard plastics or similar hard materials in Turkmenistan from 2007 to 2024.

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The statistic reflects the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in member states of the European Union in November 2024. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in Spain in November 2024 was 11.2 percent.The unemployment rate represents the share of the unemployed in all potential employees available to the job market. Unemployment rates in the EU The unemployment rate is an important measure of a country or region’s economic health, and despite unemployment levels in the European Union falling slightly from a peak in early 2013 , they remain high, especially in comparison to what the rates were before the worldwide recession started in 2008. This confirms the continuing stagnation in European markets, which hits young job seekers particularly hard as they struggle to compete against older, more experienced workers for a job, suffering under jobless rates twice as high as general unemployment. Some companies, such as Microsoft and Fujitsu, have created thousands of jobs in some of the countries which have particularly dire unemployment rates, creating a beacon of hope. However, some industries such as information technology, face the conundrum of a deficit of qualified workers in the local unemployed work force, and have to hire workers from abroad instead of helping decrease the local unemployment rates. This skills mismatch has no quick solution, as workers require time for retraining to fill the openings in the growing science-, technology-, or engineering-based jobs, and too few students choose degrees that would help them obtain these positions. Worldwide unemployment also remains high, with the rates being worst in the Middle East and North Africa. Estimates by the International Labour Organization predict that the problem will stabilize in coming years, but not improve until at least 2017.

As at December 2023, there were ******* work permit holders for the construction and marine shipyard and process industry. Singapore's construction sector relies heavily on migrant labor, the majority of whom come from neighboring Asian countries such as Bangladesh, India, and Myanmar. Many experienced several challenges in Singapore, including harsh working and living conditions, discrimination, as well as health risks. Construction work Foreigners outnumber residents working in the construction sector in Singapore by a large margin. The majority of them engage in physically demanding and dangerous labor. While construction sites have gotten safer in the past few years, there were still cases of fatal accidents in construction work. This is hardly surprising given the long hours worked, coupled with the physical intensity of the job. Singapore and the migrant worker community Such jobs have long been hard to fill with just the local labor force. Furthermore, increased economic growth has led to an increase in average wages for the resident population. To keep labor costs low, the construction sector employs cheaper labor from other Asian countries. However, this has led to certain prejudices forming and friction between the residents as well as the migrant worker communities. Migrant workers in construction, shipyard and processes are usually housed in crowded dormitories away from local residential areas. This further underlines the segregation between the local residents and the migrant workers.

Worldwide, India was the country with the highest number of people living in modern slavery, either as forced laborers, sexual exploitation, forced marriages, or other forms of coercion. An estimated ** million people were living in modern slavery in India, followed by *** million in China. This may be no surprise as these are the two most populous countries worldwide. North Korea was the country with the highest number of people in modern slavery per 1,000 inhabitants.

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European Sold Production of Machine Tools for Working Wood, Cork, Bone, Hard Rubber, Hard Plastics or Similar Hard Materials by Country, 2023 Discover more data with ReportLinker!