OUR WHY: "Youth are underrepresented in..."
EMPLOYMENT
- 1 in 5 youth are not acquiring livelihood skills through education or work. That's 200,000,000 young people!
- Youth NEET is still understated as data are not available for all countries as of 2022
- Average CEO age in the S&P 500 is 58 with 81% of S&P 500 CEOs fall between 50 and 65 years of age. The youngest is Mark Zuckerberg at age 37, and only 3 CEOs are under 40
- The average age of an employed corporate director is 46 years old as of 2022
- While evidence support that younger directors on S&P 500 boards show positive effect on companies’ performance, median board age is 63 years as of 2020
DATA
- Many indices, but only 3 focused on youth and not up to date as of December 2022:
- Global Youth Wellbeing Index (last updated in 2017)
- Youth Progress Index (last updated in 2017)
- Youth Development Index (last updated in 2016)
- No metrics on how much youth know about the Global Goals
- Only 1 metric was used to measure youth representation in decision-making: percent of young members of parliament
DECISION-MAKING
- 2.6% of national legislatures are below age 30 and 14.2% are below age 40
- Close to 33% of 'lower chambers' of parliament do not have a single member below age 30 (rises to 80% in upper chambers). Only 40% of the world's young member parliaments below 30 are female
- Africa's continent has the youngest population worldwide, with 70% of the population under 30. However, the average age of heads of states across the continent is 62 years as of 2022
- Worldwide, there are less than 10 heads of state younger than 40 years as of 2022