GENEVA: The number of unemployed young people worldwide should fall to 73 million in 2022, 2 million fewer than the year-before figure, the United Nations' labor agency said on Thursday.

However, the figure is still 6 million higher than the pre-coronavirus pandemic level of 2019, with the recovery in youth unemployment lagging behind the rebound in other age groups, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said in a report.

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