More than 20 percent of youth are unemployed:

Teller · 1 More than 20 percent of youth are unemployed: Sun Mar 29, 2015 11:44 pm

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Department of Census and Statistics revealed that more than 20 percent of the youth are unemployed.

Their latest report states that a 20.6 percent of the youth between the ages of 15 and 24 are currently unemployed.

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka released its Sri Lanka Labour Force -Statistics Quarterly Bulletin for last year.

According to statistics, 4.2 percent of the population are unemployed.However, 24.5 percent of the women between the ages of 15 and 24 and 18.2 percent of the males in the same criteria are unemployed.

According to the report, this category is mostly represented by Advanced Level students and students who are currently involved in higher education.by Dept stat

Teller · 2 Re: More than 20 percent of youth are unemployed: Sun Mar 29, 2015 11:46 pm

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Its time to understand, where are we now??

dsam · 3 Re: More than 20 percent of youth are unemployed: Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:49 am

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does this count self employed people ?

Senior Citizen · 4 Re: More than 20 percent of youth are unemployed: Mon Mar 30, 2015 8:59 am

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It accounts for 90% of the lazy and unproductive youth who expects societ to provide for them with no effort on their part.

That's the Z generation or Lazy generation!