NSO/ILO launches a report "SDG monitoring and Country Profile for Mongolia"

The report compiles in one document all available data on decent work and SDG-related statistical and legal indicators.

Press release | 01 March 2019
Ulaanbaatar (ILO News) – National Statistics Office of Mongolia released its joint publication with the ILO, Accelerating the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals through decent work: SDG monitoring and country profile for Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar today. The report compiles in one document all available data on decent work and SDG-related statistical and legal indicators. Where possible, it provides an analysis of existing gaps and trends while reflecting on the Mongolian situation. After the UN General Assembly adopted the 17 SDGs in September 2015, the Parliament of Mongolia approved its Sustainable Development Vision-2030

The report presents a picture of today’s world of work in Mongolia, urging for greater effort for improvements. Today, about 40 per cent of Mongolian workers work more than 48 hours a week and 22.7 per cent of the population are the working poor. One out of 4 youth is unemployed and 1 out of 5 are not in employment, education, or training.

From the production of this report, the NSO has revised its labour force survey methodology. Starting in 2019, the NSO labour force survey will capture data in a way that supports estimation of the country’s informal economy. Policy makers, governments at various levels and other stakeholders will soon have the number of workers who have informal employment in registered and non-registered businesses and those who work in households, including herders, at their disposal. Such data can assist the Government at national, aimag and sectoral levels in precise targeting of social and economic services so as not to leave no one behind.

The NSO-ILO partnership in the production of this report was possible with the financial support from the ILO Regular Budget Supplementary Account of 2016-2017.

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