China vs Japan: 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 Japan's 2.45. That makes China's value 88.3% higher than Japan's.
China
Rank #107 of 182 globally
- Latest (2025)
- 4.62
- Year-over-year
- +0.5%
- 10-year change
- -0.8%
- Peak
- 5.00 (2020)
- Trough
- 4.31 (2018)
Japan
Rank #159 of 182 globally
- Latest (2025)
- 2.45
- Year-over-year
- -2.0%
- 10-year change
- -27.6%
- Peak
- 5.10 (2010)
- Trough
- 2.35 (2019)
Other China comparisons
Source: World Bank Open Data (SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS), CC BY 4.0.