Jobs outlook Technological change, the green transition, economic uncertainty, geoeconomic fragmentation and demographic shifts are reshaping the labour market. This chapter analyses how employers expect various kinds of jobs to grow and decline in response to these macrotrends and assesses the role of each of these trends in contributing to labour-market transformation. Total job growth and loss By combining respondents’ job growth and decline expectations with hard data on global employment collected by the ILO, the Future of Jobs Report 2025 estimates that, by 2030, on current predictions, new job creation and job displacement due to macrotrends will represent a combined total of 22% of today’s total (formal) jobs. Specifically, macrotrend-driven creation of new jobs is estimated to amount to 170 million jobs, equivalent to 14% of today’s total employment. This growth is expected to be offset by the displacement of 92 million current jobs, or 8% of total employment, resulting in a net growth of 78 million jobs (7% of today’s total employment) by 2030, Figure 2.1 illustrates the total number of jobs expected to be created and displaced due to labour-market transformation relative to total employment today. Future of Jobs Report 2025 January 20252 2.1 Source World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Survey 2024; International Labour Organization, ILOSTAT.Note Please refer to the Appendix for the methodology.Global employment change by 2030 FIGURE 2.1 Jobs destroyed Jobs stable Jobs createdOne million jobsIn the next ﬁve years, 170 million jobs are projected to be created and 92 million jobs to be displaced, constituting a structural labour market churn of 22% of the 1.2 billion formal jobs in the dataset being studied. This amounts to a net employment increase of 7%, or 78 million jobs. Growing and declining jobs The Future of Jobs Survey gathered insights from employers on job roles expected to grow, decline or remain stable within their organizations over the next five years. Respondents were then asked to identify the macrotrends and technological advancements driving job growth and decline in their organizations. Future of Jobs Report 2025 18