The report found that young people are most worried about the lack of job opportunities, insufficient government investment, and the quality and relevance of their education. They feel that some higher education is "overly theoretical" rather than giving them practical skills that are vital to getting hired in the work force. Young people also often feel that they are the last to be hired, and the first to be dismissed creating many instabilities in the workplace.

Not all of the report is as pessimistic. The world's youth are hopeful that new technologies, the "green" industry, and entrepreneurship will provide opportunities for jobs in the future. “ Today we have the largest generation of young people the world has ever known,” said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the report’s introduction. "We need to pull the UN system together like never before to support a new social contract of job-rich economic growth. Let us start with young people.

The report can be downloaded at this address : http://unworldyouthreport.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=category&task=category&id=1&Itemid=67