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Rising number of young people excluded from jobs, education and training Çourtesy:UN News World Bank/Li Wenyong Employed youth, between the ages of 15 and 24, face a greater risk than older workers of losing their jobs because of automation.         9 March 2020 Economic Development The number of young people around the world who are neither employed, studying or in some kind of training, is on the rise, according to a new report released on Monday by the International Labour Organization (ILO). And young women are more than twice as likely as their male counterparts to be affected. Increasing automation, a narrow focus of vocational training and a lack of jobs to match qualifications, are leaving young people with a precarious future in the labour market, says the report, officially called:  Global Employment Trends for Youth 2020: Technology and the future of jobs  (GET Youth 2020). Moreover, employees between the ages of