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The labour market is depicted by two graphs. Firstly, the graph on the [[:Archivo:Mundo_Evolucion-del-mercado-de-trabajo-en-el-mundo_2000-2020_graficoestadistico_18082_spa.jpg|''Evolution of the labour market worldwide'']] shows the evolution of global employment in the medium term, from 2000 to 2020. Only few significant variations are visible in this type of graph. However, it does show a decrease in the total number of workers and a moderate rise in unemployment during the transition from 2019 to 2020. For its part, the graph illustrating the [[:Archivo:Mundo_Distribucion-de-los-trabajadores-con-pobreza-laboral-en-el-mundo_2010-2020_graficoestadistico_18083_spa.jpg|''Global distribution of workers in poverty'']] confirms that a large part of the labour force in the least developed countries is living in poverty –particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa–, whilst moderate poverty spans throughout East Asia, South Asia and North Africa.
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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).
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.
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