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China vs India: Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate)

Side-by-side comparison from World Bank Open Data.

In , China's Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate) was 4.62, compared to India's 4.22. That makes China's value 9.4% higher than India's.

China

Rank #107 of 182 globally

China trend
Latest (2025)
4.62
Year-over-year
+0.5%
10-year change
-0.8%
Peak
5.00 (2020)
Trough
4.31 (2018)

India

Rank #112 of 182 globally

India trend
Latest (2025)
4.22
Year-over-year
+1.1%
10-year change
-44.7%
Peak
7.86 (2020)
Trough
4.17 (2023)

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Source: World Bank Open Data (SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS), CC BY 4.0.