China'S Unemployment Rate 2024. At the end of 2023, the number of employed people in china was 740.41 million, and that in urban areas was 470.32 million, accounting for 63.5 percent of the total employed people. China’s surveyed unemployment rate was at 5.3% in august 2024, compared with market expectations and july's reading of 5.2%.

The data reached an all. China’s unemployment rate for the urban labor force aged 16 to 24, excluding students, has dropped to 17.6 percent in september, down from 18.8 percent in august, data.