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The labour market is depicted by two graphs. Firstly, the graph on the [[:File:Mundo_EvolucionWorld_Evolution-delof-mercadothe-deLabour-trabajoMarket-enworldwide_2000-el-mundo_2000-2020_graficoestadistico_18082_spa2020_statisticalgraph_18082_eng.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 amount of workers and a moderate rise in unemployment during the transition from 2019 to 2020. For its part, the graph depicting the [[:File: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.

[[File:Logo MonografíaWorld_Evolution-of-the-Labour-Market-worldwide_2000-2020_statisticalgraph_18082_eng.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Statistical graph: Evolution of the labour market Labour Market worldwide. 2000-2020. World.]]

[[File:Logo MonografíaWorld_Global-distribution-of-workers-in-poverty_2010-2020_statisticalgraph_18083_eng.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Statistical graph: Global distribution of workers in poverty. 2010-2020. World.]]

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 amount of [[:File:Mundo_HorasWorld_Lost-deworking-trabajohours-perdidasdue-porto-COVID--1919_2019-en-el-mundo_2019-2020_mapa_18065_spa2020_map_18065_eng.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).

[[File:Logo MonografíaWorld_Variation-of-CO2-emissions-due-COVID--19-confinement-in-the-world_2019-2020_statisticalgraph_18085_eng.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Statistical graph: Variation in global of CO₂ emissions due to the COVID-19 lockdownconfinement in the world. 2019-2020. World.]]