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Art is made by BASW 2nd Year student of St. Xavier's College

In the 83rd Plenary meeting on 17 December 1999, United Nation declared 12 August as the International Youth Day on the recommendation of World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth (Lisbon, 8-12 August 1998) by the United Nations General Assembly 54/120 resolution. While world is celebrating International Youth Day 2013 with theme  "Youth Migration: Moving Development Forward" (Youth Migration was not among 15 priority list of World Programme of Youth on Action adopted UN General Assembly on the 10th Anniversary of Youth Year) condition of Youth is still the same and even worst than before. One of the major reason for youth migration is due to lack of proper employment opportunities in their origin country. Lets see the status of Youth of World to Nepal. 

 Contradictory with growing rate of Youth Unemployment, it was the major priority of World Programme of Youth on Action. 

Talking about Nepal, Problem related to youth unemployment is burning issue and will be more acute in the next decade as International Labor Organization (ILO) shows youth unemployment rate growth by 2.1 % per year. According to the findings "Report on the Nepal Labor Force Survey" published by the Department of Statistics, Nepal in 2008, a large number of young people are semi unemployed and unemployed. In Nepal, more than 4 million youth are totally unemployed and number is still increasing. Nearly 49.9 percent urban youth and 32.2 percent rural youth are unemployed. When the youth become unemployed in rural areas then they migrate to urban areas in search of job which makes 80% of Urban Youth population unemployed. Due to lack of employment opportunities. From the year 1993-1994 till 2004 December, it is found that total of migrant is 528071 (Source : Ministry of Labour and Transport Management, Labour and Employment Promotion Department). The number may be double at this time. 

Some World's Youth and Employment facts:

• There are 1.2 billion youth in the world aged between 15 and 24. 87% of youth live in developing countries.

• Among 202 million unemployed, youth makes 40% of world's unemployed with the age bar (15-24). (Just imagine if the age bar of youth in International Arena was like Nepal then what would be the condition - Joke Apart)

• In 2011, Youth risk for being unemployment was 3 times than adult.

• A total of 357.7 million youth were not in education, employment, or training (NEET) in 2010 and number is increasing rapidly. Among them 341 million was from developing countries.

• 1.52 billion people - seven times more the number of unemployed are estimated to be invulnerable employment in 2011.