You’ve misinterpreted your first source — that’s the _youth_ unemployment rate and not the overall rate. The correct comparison is 5.1% to the US’s 4.2%.
> You’ve misinterpreted your first source — that’s the _youth_ unemployment rate and not the overall rate. The correct comparison is 5.1% to the US’s 4.2%.
You are correct, I cannot edit any more.
In any case it is definitely trending upwards [1], and I'm hearing from people inside China that unemployment is rapidly increasing. A lot of factories are either on pause or shut down until further notice.
That all said, it's unclear how many of those are gainfully employed, or how that would even be measured in China. There are many working in the delivery economy that sleep homeless. I think those working unsustainably is also on the increase.
