The ILO's revised figures mean global unemployment has risen by 28 million since 2007, before the start of the financial crisis, said ILO Director-General Guy Ryder.
With a further 39 million "discouraged" people withdrawing from the labour market over the same period, the crisis could be seen to have created a global jobs gap of 67 million, he said.
However, despite the greater number people believed to have given up on looking for work, the ILO's latest report did not revise figures given a year ago for the total number of people in the labour market.
The so-called "labour force participation rate", which measures the proportion of the working-age population who are working or looking for work, is thought to have remained steady at 64.1 percent for the past three years, showing no sign of the labour force shrinking.
The figure had been above 65 percent until 2007 but fell in each of the subsequent three years.
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根据国际劳工组织本周二公布的年度报告,今年全球失业队伍将扩充至2亿多人,再次发出警报。该组织已经连续六年在年初发布失业警报。
联合国就业情况监督机构估计,今年失业人数将增加510万,总计超过2.02亿,2017年将再增加300万,2017年这一增幅为420万。
如果这些预测应验,全球失业率将又创新高。不过,国际劳工组织将每年的失业率都做了下调,因为那些放弃找工作的人数量一直在增加,也就是说他们不再被列为失业人口。
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