comprehensive national youth policies and engaging young people in its programmes. It acts as the Asia-Pacific regional focal point for the World Programme of Action for Youth. It also supports the implementation of the Secretary-General’s Five-Year Action Agenda, which aims to deepen the youth focus of existing programmes on

Empowering Youth in Asia and the Pacific. Today, the world is home to 1.8 billion young people, the largest generation of youth in history. Over half of them live in the Asia-Pacific region.

South Asia: Gender inequality continues to challenge youth development. Governments have only recently begun to implement policies addressing child marriage, equal access to education, and women’s economic empowerment. East Asia and certain countries in Southeast Asia have already experienced the demographic transition.

• Youth make up about 19% of the region’s total population. • Over 60% of the world’s youth live in Asia-Pacific. This translates into more than 750 million young

The Youth Empowerment Portfolio in Asia and the Pacific (YEP-AP) aims to invest in and empower young people across the region, accelerating the implementation of SDGs. The portfolio promotes and advances youth empowerment in the following pillars :

Global Employment Trends for Youth 2024 Asia and the Pacific At 13.9 per cent in 2023, the youth unemployment rate for Asia and the Pacific reflects a full recovery from the crisis years and falls below the rate of the pre-crisis years. But trends diverge by subregion with positive signals of declining youth unemployment and rising

2024年6月1日 · These studies highlight the remarkable diversity and resilience of Asia’s youth, while also underscoring the impact of structural inequalities on their lives, which differ significantly from...

Across the Asian and Pacific region, several countries have well-developed and stand-alone national youth policies, others have youth policies embedded in their constitutions, and others still lack coherent youth policies, with different ministries and departments charged with covering different youth issues.

2012年11月12日 · Over 60 per cent of the world’s youth live in Asia- Pacific. This translates into more than 750 million young women and men aged 15 to 24 years. Almost half of these youth are concentrated in South and South-West Asia, which is in a …

In Asia today, there are more than 11 b. illion youth aged 10 to 24, representing 26 percent of the total population. India and China alone account for 660 million youth, with 360 and 300