Future of Jobs Report 2025

44% 56% 57% 43%42% 58%35% 65% Core skills which will change in the next five years Core skills which will remain the same in the next five years61%39% 0 2016 100 75 50 25Share of worker skill sets (%) Survey year 2018 2020 2023 2025Disruptions to skills FIGURE 3.1 Source World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Surveys 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024. Note Values reported are the mean skill stability percentages estimated by employers surveyed in each edition of the survey.Evolution in the share of workers' core skills expected to change and to remain the same within the next five years, 2016-2025. However, the extent of skills disruption is not uniform across economies and industries. Lower- middle and upper middle-income economies and those affected by conflict tend to expect greater disruption in workers’ skills, while high-income economies foresee less instability (Figure 3.2). Future of Jobs Report 2025 33