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China’s youth jobless rate at 16.9% in November

By Thomson Reuters Dec 17, 2025 | 8:19 PM

BEIJING, Dec 18 (Reuters) – China’s jobless rate ‍for 16-to-24-year-olds, excluding college students, stood at ‌16.9% in ‌November, down from 17.3% in the previous month, data ​from the National ‍Bureau ​of Statistics ​showed on ‍Thursday.

The unemployment rate for 25-to-29-year-olds, excluding students, was ‍at 7.2%, matching October’s 7.2%, while ‍the ‍jobless ​rate for ​30-to-59-year-olds ⁠was 3.8%, ‌the data showed.

(Reporting by Beijing Newsroom; Editing by Muralikumar ⁠Anantharaman)