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China’s youth unemployment soars to 2-year high as job crunch deepens
The jobless rate among young people in China hit 18.9 per cent in August – the highest level since Beijing changed the way it calculates the metric in 2023.
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China’s urban youth unemployment rate rose in August 2025 to the highest level since the data set was adjusted in 2023, as career prospects for young people have weakened amid an economic slowdown. What’s causing unemployment among youth to rise and what are officials doing about it?
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