29/10/2025
Today is the International Day of Care and Support. We join the global community to recognise and celebrate the millions of paid and unpaid caregivers who are the foundation of our society.
But celebrating them isn’t enough. The scale of low and unpaid care work is staggering, and often invisible. Women provide 16 BILLION hours of unpaid care work, every single day! That’s worth $11 TRILLION – 9% of global GDP.
In some countries, if unpaid care work was given a monetary value, it would exceed 40% of their GDP, larger than some of their major sectors! Women provide 2.5 times more unpaid care hours than men, and account for around two-thirds of the paid care workforce, often on a low salary. But investing in the care economy, which would support both caregivers and those who need care, could create nearly 300 million global jobs in the next 10 years. It’s time to build a global care system that works for everyone.
