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Sri Lanka’s educated youth unemployment among highest in Asia: IMF
Sri Lanka records the highest unemployment rate among highly educated youth in the Asian economies highlighted in a recent International
Summary
Sri Lanka's overall youth unemployment rate is also high at around 22%, compared with an overall unemployment rate of about 4% across all age groups. Among people of all ages with advanced education, Sri Lanka's unemployment rate is around 6%, far below the rate recorded for educated youth. The IMF defines youth as people aged 15-24 and advanced education as post-secondary education.
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People
- Krishna Srinivasan
Organisations
- International Monetary Fund3
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- Sri Lanka3
- Asia3
- Bangladesh2
- India2
Keywords
- unemployment3
- educated3
- youth3
- postsecondary2
- imf2
- joblessness
- comparison
- economies
- graduate
- regional
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