This is the most vulnerable group in the labor market, out of a total of two billion globally, and a workforce of three and a half billion people, the ILO said in a report.
According to the text, the triggers of this risk are the confinement measures, and the fact that these people work in some of the most affected sectors.
According to ILO, in the first month of the crisis worldwide, 60 percent of the income of informal workers was collected.
This represents a contraction of 81 percent in Africa and parts of the Americas, 21.6 percent in Asia and the Pacific, and 70 percent in Europe and Central Asia.
The organization stresses that without an alternative source of income, these workers and their families will have no means of survival.
The ILO also referred to the risks faced by companies on an international scale.
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