(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) More than 30 percent of young Arabs are jobless because of unrest in many Arab nations and insufficient investment, a top labor official said.
"The unemployment rate among Arab youth until the age of 30 years exceeds 30 percent," the director general of the Arab Labor Organization Ahmad Mohammed Luqman said on the sidelines of the annual Arab labor conference.
"Unrest and a lack of investment have raised the number of jobless youths," he added.
He said many graduates fail to find employment because their specializations are not needed by the private sector.
"Due to unrest in several Arab nations, the number of Arabs without jobs has jumped by two million since 2011, putting the total number of unemployed Arabs at 20 million," Luqman noted.
He told the opening session of the five-day gathering in Kuwait City that unemployment in the Arab world had hit 17 percent last year, "three times higher" than the global average.
"It appears that unemployment numbers will rise this year and the next," Luqman added.
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