Social Protection and Jobs

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A comprehensive collection of data on development issues, including: World Development Indicators (WDI), the World Bank’s premier compilation of cross-country comparable data on development, and the Microdata Library, a collection of datasets from the World Bank and other international, regional and national organizations.

Universal social protection is essential for realizing the human right to social security for all, advancing social justice and promoting inclusive growth, and accelerating progress towards achieving the globally agreed 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Access to at least a basic level of social security throughout the life cycle is a human right, fundamental to ensuring individuals’ health and dignity. Social protection systems are at the core of efforts to ensure decent living conditions for the whole population throughout their lives. The proportion of the population covered by social protection floors provides an indication of the extent to which the ideal of the universality of social protection is accomplished and of how secure the population's health and living conditions are. It is therefore a key indicator that conveys information on how protected the population is from the various contingencies potentially faced in life.

Foreign Labor Statistics (FLS)