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The [[:Archivo:Mundo_Producto-Interior-Bruto-per-capita-en-el-mundo_2020_mapa_18057_spa.jpg| ''Gross Domestic Product per capita'']] map reveals the contrast between the most developed countries, located in Europe, North America and Oceania, and the least developed ones, concentrated mainly in Africa. The impact of the 2020 economic crisis was uneven, with different implications for various parts of the world. Europe and the United States experienced a sharp drop in GDP as mobility restrictions and temporary company shutdowns curbed their economic activity. In contrast, despite successfully managing to control the pandemic, China, Australia and New Zealand experienced economic downturns mainly caused by the decline in exports due to the significant decrease in international trade.
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One statistic that is clearly indicative of the pandemic’s impact on business activity is the number of lost working hours. The map depicting the number of [[:Archivo:Mundo_Horas-de-trabajo-perdidas-por-COVID--19-en-el-mundo_2019-2020_mapa_18065_spa.jpg|''Lost working hours Due to COVID-19'']] shows the heavier burden of the crisis in Andean America (from Colombia to Argentina), part of Central America, the United Kingdom, several southerly EU Member States (Spain, Italy, Greece), South Africa, Morocco, Oman, Turkey, the Caucasus, the Indian subcontinent and the Philippines. Generally speaking, these territories were also the ones most affected by the pandemic, many of which already had fragile labour markets. At the other end of the scale are some of the countries that successfully managed to contain the virus, such as China, Australia and New Zealand, some countries in Indochina, Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe (Switzerland, Norway and Belarus) and several EU Member States (the Netherlands, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Poland and the Czech Republic).
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Another analysis relevant to the study of how the crisis impacted the labour market is shown on the map depicting the [[:Archivo:Europa_Tasa-de-paro-en-la-Union-Europea_2020_mapa_18102_spa.jpg|'' Unemployment rates in the European Union in 2020'']]. Figures were clearly high for Spain, Greece and some Scandinavian and Baltic States. The Eastern States, Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland and Portugal, however, had lower unemployment rates. Generally speaking, unemployment increased to a greater extent in States that previously had fragile labour markets and were therefore more exposed to the crisis. It is also worth mentioning that the relatively high data for Scandinavia could be linked to the fact that the these States tend to have better social protection schemes for the unemployed than the rest of the Union. Lastly, it should be noted that the temporary job protection measures succeeded in tempering the final figures for all EU Member States.
The last map related to the labour market shows the [[:Archivo:Europa_Tasa-de-ocupacion-en-la-Union-Europea_2020_mapa_18103_spa.jpg|''Employment rates in the European Union in 2020'']]. The highest employment rates were in the north and the lowest in the south. This map shows certain structural behaviours, such as the greater or lesser insertion of women in the labour market. Statistics for 2020 were heavily influenced by the furlough policies that most States introduced to counteract the pandemic’s impact on the labour market. The States with the highest employment rates were Sweden and the Netherlands, where full employment of both men and women in the context of a moderately ageing population may be pointed out. By contrast, Spain, Italy and Greece had the lowest employment figures, with high ageing and fewer women and young people in the labour market.
