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This Is What The World's Workforce Will Look Like In 10 Years

Darcy Jimenez
Darcy Jimenez
This Is What The World's Workforce Will Look Like In 10 Years
One generation in particular is projected to exit the workforce entirely.
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As of 2024, Gen X, millennials and Gen Z occupy similar shares of the global workforce — but in a decades' time, that will have changed significantly.

Using data from McCrindle, Visual Capitalist created a chart comparing the generational makeup of the current workforce with that of the projected workforce by 2035.

Baby Boomers, which currently comprise 12 percent of the global workforce, will be virtually absent from it in 10 years. Gen Alpha, on the other hand, made up zero percent of the workforce in 2024, but are projected to account for almost 20 percent by 2035.

Gen Z is set to make up the largest share of the global workforce (31 percent), followed by millennials (29 percent).

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global workforce by generation 2035

Via Voronoi.

Comments

  1. John Smith 6 days ago

    So 21% will actually know what they're doing because they have a functional worth ethic and knowledge of the "before times" prior to social media. 29% will still be obsessed with TikTok and trying desperately to make "social influencer" their career. 31% still won't know how to use a can opener and will still live with their parents at 29. So essentially what's happening right now, plus a decade.

  2. Jason 1 week ago

    Generation X is well known to be 1965 to 1980.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X

  3. lordcanyon 1 week ago

    As always the numbers are off. Baby Boomers are the only generation defined by birth year. Gen X are the young adults of the 90's and Gen T/M of the 2000's. No generation after that has a name.

  4. Jesse Donat 1 week ago

    It would make sense for the chart to show the age they will be then rather than their age now

  5. Unknown 1 week ago

    Math...2035 is only 10 years from now, not 20 years, per the headline.

    1. Digg 1 week ago

      Fixed, thanks!

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