UN: 65% of today’s first-graders will choose professions that are not yet available

The world is facing the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Technical advancements and innovations lead to huge changes in the labor market. Experts estimate that about 65 percent of the first-graders will have jobs that do not exist yet.

The United Nations Office on the Rights of the Child, First Deputy Secretary-General Alina Mohammed, said in a statement addressed to high school students from different countries. “The sharp change in technology dramatically changes everything around us, including living, working, and cooperating. In general, innovations make people’s lives easier, they create new opportunities to build a prosperous and worthy future, “he said.

According to the UN, at the time of their completion two million jobs will be created in the spheres of technology, mathematics and architecture. New Generation Engineers needed.

According to one UN report, by the end of 2017, 2.41 billion people are using social networks, and this number is growing rapidly. It is also mentioned that from 10 to 80 percent of the world’s work in the coming years will be done by robots. And these changes already happen. For example, from 2014 to 2016, Amazon raised its employees by 3.5 times, from 100 to 350,000, and the number of robots involved in warehouses 30 times from 1400 to 45,000.

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