No, Millennials will NOT be 75% of the Workforce in 2025 (or ever)! – The Data

A few days ago I published an article about Millennials and promised to publish the detailed charts

If you read my article, you’ve noticed that I reference several studies and data sources. During the research, I looked not only at the global numbers, but used different perspectives to look at the data, just to make sure I wasn’t overlooking something that would lead to 75% Millennials in the workforce. But no.

This article provides you with global and regional charts. It lists the data sources I used to create the charts and write the article. You can use these links to download the data and tailor them to your own workforce. And at the end I provide links to articles in different languages and locations to demonstrate how widespread the belief is that in 2025 75% of the workforce will be Millennials. But now you know better!

Global

Africa

Asia

Europe

Latin America and the Caribbean

North America

Oceania

Data Sources

All the data I used is available online and you can download the data sets for free from the following sources:

United Nations Population Data: https://population.un.org/wpp/Download/Standard/Population/

Link to the data file used as base for the report: https://population.un.org/wpp/Download/Files/1_Indicators%20(Standard)/EXCEL_FILES/1_Population/WPP2019_POP_F07_1_POPULATION_BY_AGE_BOTH_SEXES.xlsx 

Visualization of the UN data into Population Pyramids per region: https://www.populationpyramid.net/

OECD Unemployment Rate: https://data.oecd.org/unemp/unemployment-rate.htm#indicator-chart 

OECD Youth Unemployment Chart: https://data.oecd.org/unemp/youth-unemployment-rate.htm#indicator-chart 

ILO Labor Force Participation: https://www.ilo.org/shinyapps/bulkexplorer7/?lang=en&segment=indicator&id=EAP_2WAP_SEX_AGE_RT_A

If you want to download the main article and this support article for further usage, you can do that here: White Paper and Data Paper.

Selected articles around the globe mentioning “Millennials will be 75% of the workforce in 2025”

Argentina

https://ar.sodexo.com/home/medios/estudios-e-informes/tendencias-globales-en-el-lugar/desbloqueando-el-talento-potenci.html

Austria

https://www.michaelpage.at/advice/management-tipps/personalentwicklung/millennial-%E2%80%93-freund-oder-feind

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Brazil

https://www.xerpa.com.br/blog/millennials-e-a-geracao-z-no-local-de-trabalho/

https://mitsloanreview.com.br/post/voce-usa-o-rotulo-millennials-baby-boomers-grande-erro

China

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201808/29/WS5b85de74a310add14f388495.html

https://www.rics.org/zh/news-insight/latest-news/news-opinion/ai-and-your-workspace-a-make-over-era-for-businesses/

France

Les Millenials : portrait-robot d’une génération de rupture

https://www.journaldunet.com/management/expert/69638/les-millennials-bousculent-les-codes-de-la-reunion.shtml

https://www.focusrh.com/tribunes/comment-la-generation-y-change-la-donne-pour-les-recruteurs-par-agnes-marchand-28126.html

Le reverse mentoring renforce l’engagement des salariés

Germany

http://www.fedex.com/de/learn/how-to-win-over-millennials.html

http://www.think-progress.com/de/performance-produktivitat/rekrutierung-von-millenials-ihr-essenzieller-leitfaden-um-das-talent-von-morgen-anzuziehen/

https://diepresse.com/home/karriere/4744310/Die-Jungen-wollen-mehr

https://handelsjournal.de/blog/ian-mcgarrigle/zahlen-zum-jahresende.html

India

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/company/corporate-trends/reimagining-human-resource-in-a-changing-world-hr-goes-the-whole-mile-to-keep-millennials-happy/articleshow/48151346.cms?from=mdr

https://www.greatlakes.edu.in/chennai/in-media/things-that-millennials-expect-from-their-jobs-dr-shameem-s

On!Purpose People Management

https://www.peoplematters.in/blog/guest-article/inculcate-employee-wellness-to-retain-your-millennial-workforce-22340?utm_source=peoplematters&utm_medium=interstitial&utm_campaign=learnings-of-the-day

Italy

https://www.dssmith.com/it/recycling/approfondimenti/blog/2018/10/millennials-and-the-circular-economy-the-new-green-generation

https://www.coca-colaitalia.it/storie/tre-regole-per-il-successo-dei-millennial-nel-mondo-del-lavoro

Mexico

https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/finanzaspersonales/Tarjetas-de-credito-principal-deuda-de-Millennials-sondeo-20190805-0062.html

Millennials: la fuerza laboral que algunas empresas ven como problema

South Africa

https://moodyandsmith.co.za/2019/06/26/how-to-work-with-millennials/

Millennials Rising: The Next Generation

https://www.skillsportal.co.za/content/retaining-and-understanding-millennials-its-too-late

https://www.pmi.org.za/are-you-managing-for-inter-generational-diversity/

https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/610/156864.html

Spain

http://www.rrhhdigital.com/secciones/mercado-laboral/134614/Los-millenials-seran-el-75-de-la-poblacion-activa-total?target=_self

https://www.ieseinsight.com/doc.aspx?id=2076&idioma=1

https://www.bbva.com/es/vida-traves-pantalla-generacion-millennial/

https://www.randstad.es/tendencias360/los-retos-de-rrhh-a-afrontar-con-los-centennials/

Sweden

https://blog.benify.se/formaner-som-ett-verktyg-for-hallbara-resor

https://www.epicor.com/sv-se/press-room/news-releases/global-studie-visar-att-f%C3%B6retag-%C3%A4r-i-desperat-behov-av-tekniskt-ledarskap-men-f%C3%B6rbiser-de-kunniga-mi1/

Switzerland

https://fokus.swiss/2019/03/14/wie-die-generation-y-die-arbeitswelt-veraendert/