Our challenges

Young men and women aged under 30 currently represent over 60 per cent of the Commonwealth’s population. They are the largest ever to enter the transition into adulthood. By 2015, there will be 3 billion young people in the world, with 2.5 billion living in developing countries. The current and emerging imperatives of globalisation and of contemporary living foretell that young women and women and men are likely to be exposed to more challenges and inequities than any other population cohort over the period.