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BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - The number of young people unemployed in developing countries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific has shot up 85.5 percent in the last decade since 1995, leaving 9.5 million youths between the ages of 15 and 24 out of work, a report released Monday by the U.N.'s International Labor Organization said.
The increase vastly outpaced the global average increase of 14.8 percent. Worldwide, some 85 million young people are unemployed, according to the Global Employment Trends for Youth 2006.
In Southeast Asia and the Pacific, youth unemployment was 15.8 percent in 2005; while in South Asia it touched 10 percent — representing 13.7 million young men and women. In East Asia excluding Japan, where youth unemployment decreased to 12 million from 13.1 million between 1995 and 2005, it was 7.8 percent, according to the report.
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