{"id":117128,"date":"2026-08-07T03:01:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T03:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trottbaileyfamily.com\/1drop\/?p=117128"},"modified":"2026-08-07T03:25:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T03:25:44","slug":"1-2-billion-young-workers-only-420-million-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trottbaileyfamily.com\/1drop\/1-2-billion-young-workers-only-420-million-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"1.2 Billion Young Workers. 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Only 420 Million Jobs.<\/h1>\n\n    <p class=\"tbf-jobs-gap-article__author\">By World Ruler Sher<\/p>\n  <\/header>\n\n  <div class=\"tbf-jobs-gap-article__body\">\n    <p class=\"tbf-jobs-gap-article__opening\">\n      The World Bank\u2019s precise statement is that, between 2025 and 2035,\n      around <strong>1.2 billion young people in emerging market and developing\n      economies will reach working age<\/strong>.\n    <\/p>\n\n    <p class=\"tbf-jobs-gap-article__opening\">\n      Across those economies, only about\n      <strong>420 million jobs are projected to be created<\/strong>.\n    <\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"tbf-jobs-gap-article__figures\">\n      <div class=\"tbf-jobs-gap-article__figure-card\">\n        <span class=\"tbf-jobs-gap-article__figure-number\">1.2 billion<\/span>\n        <p class=\"tbf-jobs-gap-article__figure-label\">\n          Young people expected to reach working age between 2025 and 2035\n        <\/p>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"tbf-jobs-gap-article__figure-card\">\n        <span class=\"tbf-jobs-gap-article__figure-number\">420 million<\/span>\n        <p class=\"tbf-jobs-gap-article__figure-label\">\n          Jobs projected to be created across those same economies\n        <\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <p class=\"tbf-jobs-gap-article__gap\">\n      That leaves a gap of nearly 800 million people.\n    <\/p>\n\n    <p class=\"tbf-jobs-gap-article__read-again\">Read that again.<\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"tbf-jobs-gap-article__repeat\">\n      <p>1.2 billion young people reaching working age.<\/p>\n      <p>Only 420 million projected jobs.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"tbf-jobs-gap-article__questions\">\n      <p>What are the other 800 million people expected to do?<\/p>\n      <p>Wait?<\/p>\n      <p>Migrate?<\/p>\n      <p>Compete harder?<\/p>\n      <p>Remain dependent on their parents?<\/p>\n      <p>Accept whatever work they can find?<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <p>\n      This is not a small problem that another training course or employment\n      programme will solve.\n    <\/p>\n\n    <p>\n      The existing system already knows that hundreds of millions of young\n      people are coming.\n    <\/p>\n\n    <p>\n      It already knows that the projected jobs will not be enough.\n    <\/p>\n\n    <p>\n      Yet governments continue using plans that do not match the size of the\n      generation.\n    <\/p>\n\n    <p class=\"tbf-jobs-gap-article__central-line\">\n      Eight hundred million people cannot be treated as leftovers.\n    <\/p>\n\n    <p>\n      They need land, tools, training, responsibility and useful work.\n    <\/p>\n\n    <p>\n      They need leaders capable of organizing production on the scale required.\n    <\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"tbf-jobs-gap-article__closing-section\">\n      <p>The problem is not that young people are unwilling to work.<\/p>\n\n      <p>\n        The problem is that the people running the world have not prepared\n        enough work for them.\n      <\/p>\n\n      <p class=\"tbf-jobs-gap-article__closing\">\n        The world is not facing a shortage of young people willing to work. It\n        is facing a shortage of leaders capable of organizing work for them.\n      <\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <footer class=\"tbf-jobs-gap-article__footer\">\n    <p>\n      <strong>Source:<\/strong> World Bank. The projection covers emerging market\n      and developing economies between 2025 and 2035.\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/news\/immersive-story\/2025\/04\/17\/jobs-the-surest-way-to-fight-poverty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View source<\/a>.\n    <\/p>\n  <\/footer>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article 4 of 7 1.2 Billion Young Workers. Only 420 Million Jobs. By World Ruler Sher The World Bank\u2019s precise statement is that, between 2025 and 2035, around 1.2 billion young people in emerging market and developing economies will reach working age. 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