• China: quarterly unemployment rate 2022

The graph shows the quarterly registered unemployment rate in urban regions of China from the first quarter of 2017 to the fourth quarter of 2021 and the surveyed urban unemployment rate since the first quarter of 2022 with an approximate figure for Q4 2021. During the first quarter of 2022, around 5.5 percent of the Chinese urban labor force had been unemployed. The monthly surveyed unemployment rate of urban areas in China ranged at 5.8 percent in March 2022. The figures of the monthly surveyed unemployment rate indicate that surveyed unemployment in the fourth quarter of 2021 had ranged between 4.9 and 5.1 percent.

Unemployment rate in urban China from 1st quarter 2017 to 1st quarter 2022

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Release date

April 2022

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Region

China

Survey time period

Q1 2017 to Q1 2022

Supplementary notes

* In Q1 2022, the methodology for calculating the unemployment rate has changed. While the figures were formerly based on registered unemployment, they are now based on surveyed unemployment, which is generally higher. However, the new figures provide a more accurate picture of the real size of existing unemployment.
** Surveyed unemployment ranged between 4.9 and 5.1 percent in Q4 2021.

Data refers to unemployment in urban areas.