China Unemployment Outlook & Forecast

China Unemployment Rate

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This chart displays Unemployment Rate for China from 2016 to 2022.

	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Unemployment (% of active population, aop)	4.9	5.2	5.6	5.1	5.6

15-Sep-23

In January–August, the contraction in property investment steepened to 8.8% year on year from 8.5% in January–July. Indicators for commercial...

15-Sep-23

Industrial output grew 4.5% in year-on-year terms in August, which was above July’s 3.7% increase. The upturn was largely due...

12-Sep-23

Consumer inflation clocked 0.1% in August in annual terms, contrasting July’s 0.3% year-on-year drop in prices but slightly below market...

11-Sep-23

In August, Chinese banks distributed CNY 1360 billion in new yuan loans, up from July’s 346 billion figure and slightly...

7-Sep-23

Merchandise exports in USD terms decreased 8.8% annually in August (July: -14.5% year-on-year). The milder fall largely reflects a more...

31-Aug-23

The National Bureau of Statistics’ Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose to 49.7 in August from July’s 49.3. August’s result...

15-Aug-23

In January–July, the contraction in property investment steepened to 8.5% year on year from 7.9% in January–June. Indicators for commercial...