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!
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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
Austria
Brazil
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
France
Germany
http://www.fedex.com/de/learn/how-to-win-over-millennials.html
https://diepresse.com/home/karriere/4744310/Die-Jungen-wollen-mehr
https://handelsjournal.de/blog/ian-mcgarrigle/zahlen-zum-jahresende.html
India
Italy
https://www.coca-colaitalia.it/storie/tre-regole-per-il-successo-dei-millennial-nel-mondo-del-lavoro
Mexico
South Africa
https://www.skillsportal.co.za/content/retaining-and-understanding-millennials-its-too-late
https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/610/156864.html
Spain
https://www.ieseinsight.com/doc.aspx?id=2076&idioma=1
https://www.bbva.com/es/vida-traves-pantalla-generacion-millennial/
Sweden
https://blog.benify.se/formaner-som-ett-verktyg-for-hallbara-resor
Switzerland