China
Unemployment rate
The unemployment rate measures the share of the labor force actively looking for work but not employed. It is a lagging but essential gauge of labor-market slack.
Unemployment Rate - China
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The reading right now
As of January 2025, Unemployment rate for China stood at 4.62%. That is up 0.03 percentage points from the prior year. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 4.68%, ranging from a low of 4.55% in January 2021 to a high of 4.98% in January 2022. The current reading sits 0.02 percentage points below its trailing ten-year mean of 4.63%.
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