Currently, more than 200 million people globally are out of a job, with youth hit particularly hard. Yet, a focus on unemployment rates alone provides an incomplete outlook on a nation’s success in utilizing its human capital endowment. A more inclusive metric of human capital outcomes would need to take stock of all those—including youth, women and older workers—who have the desire and potential to contribute their capabilities, skills and experience for their own well-being as well as that of economy and society as a whole. Such a metric would also need to assess the education and skills of both the active and inactive population. Above all, as today’s economies become ever more knowledge-based, technology-driven and globalized, and because we simply don’t know what the jobs of tomorrow will look like, there is a growing recognition that we have to prepare the next generation with the capacity for lifelong learning.