7.4M youth across the Middle East and North Africa are unable to find a job. With the highest unemployment rate in the world, this is a generation ON THE BRINK. To show the staggering amount of unemployed young people in MENA, we collaborated with the Lutfia Rabbani Foundation to create a visual that compares this large demographic of young people across the Arab world to the total population of 12 EU cities.

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Information aggregated from Brookings Institution, CityPopulation.de and ILO. City populations based on national estimates for most recent year available. $25 billion lost economic potential calculated ILO, equivalent to 1.1% growth in regional GDP per capita. Unemployment & Economic Loss http://bit.ly/ilo-get2014 (p64, p66, p107) | City Populations http://bit.ly/city-pop | Delayed Career & Independence http://bit.ly/meyi-inclusion (p11, p17)

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