BI Fact Sheets - POPULATION DYNAMICS AND EMPLOYMENT PROMOTION - A Large Youth Generation

If household of working-age people between the ages of incomes increase and at the same time In the context of Sustainable Develop- 15 and 64 is expected to increase almost a country makes progress in healthcare, ment Goal (SDG) 8, the United Nations threefold.2 Rapidly progressing urbanisa- education and gender equality, this in turn defines decent work as “employment tion and the impacts of the. [...] On average, eight out of to be improved to guarantee employ- improve the employment opportunities ten women are in precarious employment ment with adequate pay in the short to and economic situation of women and while one in four women work in fami- medium term for a large number of young to promote businesses that drive the ly-owned, often agricultural enterprises and people. [...] The gender pay gap is the timing and number of their children childbearing.38 Therefore, good sexual particularly high for women with children, and they are also responsible for most of and reproductive health care is essential at around 31 percent in both the formal and the care work, their options for participa- to enable women to take up training and the informal sector. [...] Employment must factor in and respond to demographic promotion should therefore be supported trends such as migration between urban At the same time, the rural population in by measures to strengthen sexual and and rural areas, rapid urbanisation and a sub-Saharan Africa continues to grow – in reproductive health and rights. [...] people in the agricultural sector, distribution of the population in a given This is also important to create a more resil- limiting the migration of young people partner country – and proactively respond ient agricultural sector that can withstand to cities and promoting agricultural to any significant shifts – when designing, the adverse impacts of the climate crisis development.