The clouds of the global financial crisis may have lifted, but six years later, the world economy is not creating nearly as many jobs as it was before 2008, a United Nations report on Wednesday concluded, nor is it expected to in the near term. That is a particularly worrisome fact at a time when more young people are entering the job market than ever before.

The economies of developed countries are likely to grow at 2 percent this year and 2.4 percent in 2015, a faster clip than in the two previous years, the report said. But job growth is projected to be “stubbornly slower” than in the pre-financial crisis years, the report warned.

Global unemployment remained stuck at 6 percent in 2013. In the developed world, long-term unemployment continued to rise, and in Africa and Asia, informal employment accounted for as much of 50 percent of all jobs.