Einar H. Dyvik
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Get in touch with us nowIn 2024, there were estimated to be approximately 3.5 billion people employed worldwide, compared to 2.23 billion people in 1991 - an increase of around 1.3 billion people. There was a noticeable fall in global employment between 2019 and 2020 when the number of employed people fell from 3.3 billion to 3.19 billion due to the sudden economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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