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75 million
Number of youth, aged 15-24, who will be unemployed globally this year. That's 6% more than in 2007. The global youth unemployment rate is 12.7%. (Source [9])
46.4%
The 2011 youth unemployment rate in Spain, up from 18.2% in 2007. (Source [10])
13.9%
Canada's youth unemployment rate in April; nearly twice as high as the 7.3% rate for the overall labour market. (Source [11])
20.4%
Percentage of Canadian youth, ages 15-24, who fell into Statistics Canada's broader category of unemployed, including discouraged, waiting or involuntarily part-time workers in April. (Source [12] -- click add/remove, click ages 15-24, see category R8)
6.4
Number of unemployed Canadian workers for every reported job vacancy. (Source [13])
40%
Percentage of unemployed Canadians who are actually eligible for Employment Insurance. (Source [14])
30%
Pay cut the federal government expects Canadians to accept if they've been on Employment Insurance for 7-18 weeks (7 for "frequent" claimants, 18 for "occasional") and are offered a lower paying job than the one they had before. (Source [15])
29,600
Estimated number of full-time federal public sector job cuts by 2015, following three rounds of cutting. (Source [16])
100,000
Number of total jobs the Parliamentary Budget Office estimates will be lost in Canada by 2014-15 as a result of federal and provincial government cutbacks. (Source [17])
105,000
Number of Ontario public (65,000) and private (40,000) sector jobs the Centre for Spatial Economics estimates will be lost in 2015 due to provincial government cutbacks. (Source [18])
100+
Number of days Quebec students took to the streets by the hundreds of thousands to protest austerity budget proposals that include raising tuition by 75% over several years. It has culminated in a controversial emergency law limiting public protest and a youth movement dubbed Printemps érable. (Source [19], source [20] and source [21])
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative's Trish Hennessy [22] has long been a fan of Harper Magazine's one-page list of eye-popping statistics, Harper's Index. Instead of wishing for a Canadian version to magically appear, she's created her own index -- a monthly listing of numbers about Canada and its place in the world. Hennessy's Index -- A number is never just a number -- comes out at the beginning of each month.