In urban areas, the youth population is larger than it has ever been and growing.
Women and girls make up nearly two thirds of the illiterate adult and youth population.
The youth population expanded in 31 of the 51 metro areas from 2000 to 2010.
However, activists say it is commendable for an otherwise indifferent youth population to be as involved as this.
And especially in the Latino community where there's a large youth population, you're seeing overcrowded schools, kids learning in trailers.
Africa's future will be shaped by its growing and dynamic youth population.
These individuals will be selected based on their track record, political involvement, ability to engage the insight of peers, and their representation of the youth population.
In Latin America, a quarter of the urban population live in slums and the youth population in urban areas is larger than it has ever been and growing.
For these reasons some argue that youth unemployment is better and more accurately represented by using a ratio, calculated as the share of unemployed, as a percentage of the whole youth population.
Mr. Khan is banking on appealing to a rising Pakistani middle class, rapid growth in the youth population and a new public consciousness about the nature of the country's ills thanks to a vigorous, expanding news media rife with political talk shows.
For instance, recent studies by the University of the West Indies (UWI, 1995), Griffith (2002) and Pacheco (2004) revealed that over 20% of the adult population (aged 15 and above) are illiterate and about 40% of the youth population (aged 15 to 24 years) are functionally illiterate.
And nationwide, the youth consumer population reflects this reversal.
According to a 2006 FIFA survey, China had 708, 754 amateur and youth players from a population of 1.3 billion compared to 738, 800 in England.
"Given what we know about the youth bulge in the population, Millennials and Hispanics will become ever more important voting blocs in upcoming presidential elections, " Taylor said.
In Asia-Pacific countries where the young population keeps growing, youth has thus become a national priority.
Four years ago, Berlin's tourist population was buoyed by hard-partying youth who flew in for a few days of clubbing.
The youth make up 60 percent of Iran's population of 70 million.
He emphasized that constitutional right to education ought to be enforced to block further addition of illiterate youth and adults in the existing lot of illiterate population.
In a separate meeting with Ms Bokova and Mr Brown, Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao highlighted that a majority of Timor-Leste's population of just over one million were youth.
Without a population that produces a higher birth rate than that at which developing nations historically have stabilized, the reduced working youth employee base cannot support the ever increasing aging population.
Eric Levine, from Restless Development, a youth development agency, said youngsters made up half of the world's population and must play an "essential role" in tackling the most urgent world issues.
In many conflict-affected countries, over 60% of the population is aged under 25, but education systems are not providing youth with the skills they need to escape poverty, unemployment and the economic despair that often contributes to violent conflict.
Aware of the central role of youth policies for the development of rights and needs of young people in Asia and the Pacific, and mainly in Indonesia, the Indonesian Ministry of Youth and the UNESCO Office in Jakarta decided to hear the voice of the young population.
An informed population, knowledgeable workforce, sensitized government officials and, in particular, environmentally aware youth are essential to the fight against climate change.
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