Gallup created three key indexes: Unemployment, Underemployment, and Employed Full Time for an Employer to measure the global workforce in terms of employment. The metrics are based on Gallup data collected since 2009 in 129 countries. We can quickly get the idea by looking at the two graphs below.
In 2009 and 2010, Mongolia, Sudan, South Africa, Spain, Columbia, and Venezuela had high unemployment with a rate of more than 15%. China, Germany, Belarus and some African countries had unemployment rate as low as less than 5%. When we looked at the percentage of population employed full time, we can read a different story. China had a low unemployment rate but only a small portion of these employed people were working in full-time basis. The percentage is even low in many Africa countries with not bad unemployment rate. On the contrary, in most western countries, the full-time rates are much high which indicated a more stable and secure work environment.
The two visualizations did a good job in telling the message of the global workforce in terms of employment by using the map distribution and color segmentation.