ILO World Social Protection Report 2014-15

1 June, 2014

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ILO

Front page of ILO World Social Protection report

The International Labour Organization has issued a new report on the critical absence of social protection for the vast majority of people in the world. The World Social Protection Report 2014-2015 presents the latest social security trends and finds that most people are without adequate social protection at times in their lives when it is most needed.

The Report finds that more than 70 per cent of the world population is not adequately covered by social protection, and in fact only 27 per cent of the global population can be shown to have access to comprehensive social security. The report is in English, but the executive summary is provided in