Analysis from the live market
The Market Desk
What the job market is doing, from BabZituna’s own listings when they can carry the question and from primary statistics when they cannot. Every figure names its source, and every piece ends with what it means for you. About the desk
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- Across economiesForty-five in a hundred young women in Pakistan are neither working nor studying. In the Netherlands it is four in a hundred young people, women and men alike.In 2025, 45.4% of Pakistani women aged 15 to 24 were neither in employment nor in education or training, against 13.1% of Pakistani men of the same age; in the Netherlands the rate was 3.9%, the lowest of 117 countries, and the same for both sexes.
- Across economiesThe working week is 50 hours in the United Arab Emirates and 30 in the Netherlands. Men work longer than women in 108 of 110 countries.People in work in the United Arab Emirates put in 50.5 hours a week in their main job in 2025, the longest week of 110 countries; in the Netherlands, 30.2 hours in 2024, the 106th.
- Across economiesViet Nam has more than twice the United Kingdom’s share of workers in industry. Nowhere on earth does industry employ half.In 2024, 34.3% of Viet Nam’s workers were in industry, 2.1 times the United Kingdom’s 16.1%.
- Across economiesIn Morocco, working women are more likely than men to earn a wage. In Pakistan, where few women work too, they are far less likely.Fewer than one woman in four is in the labour force in Morocco (19.8%) or in Pakistan (24.0%).
- Across economiesIn a year, Brazil gained 335,000 people working for themselves with a registered business. The number working for themselves did not measurably grow.Brazil's labour survey for May to July 2026, published by IBGE on 27 August, counts 103.3 million people in work, 899,000 more than a year earlier, and unemployment at 5.3%, the lowest for those months since the series began in 2012.
- Across economiesSix Gulf markets carry 621 live openings and not one of them can print a median advertised salary. Vienna does it on three job boards.Of the 65 markets BabZituna serves, 22 publish a median advertised salary.
- Across economiesChina's labour force fell by 12 million between 2014 and 2024 while its adult population grew by 63 million. Fewer people were in it, not fewer people alive.Across the 182 economies carrying the count in both years, the world's labour force grew by 412 million people, from 3,273 million to 3,685 million.
- Across economiesIn Ethiopia, 340 people work alone for every one who employs anybody. Being self-employed rarely means employing anyone.In 2024 own-account workers, meaning people self-employed with nobody working for them, were 54.5% of everyone in work in Ethiopia, while employers were 0.16%: 340 of the first for every one of the second.
What the desk tracks
Every piece is written from these live streams — open them yourself; they are the same pages we read.
- Salaries by cityMedian advertised pay across 41 hubs, in local currency, refreshed continuously.
- Remote shareHow much of each market is flagged remote-eligible — and where the global pool surfaces.
- Skills in demandWhat employers actually name in listings, recognised against the ESCO vocabulary.
- Who is hiringThe employers holding the most live roles in the aggregated supply, right now.