In Latin America and the Caribbean, the unemployment rate has seen a slight decrease, moving from 6.9% in 2022 to 6.2% in 2023. Despite this modest improvement, 19.8 million people remain unemployed. This rate is still higher than the global average of 5.1% during the same period. Edit status The International Labour Organization (ILO) highlighted […]
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