China vs South Africa: 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 South Africa's 32.39. That makes China's value 85.8% lower than South Africa'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)
South Africa
Rank #2 of 182 globally
- Latest (2025)
- 32.39
- Year-over-year
- +0.3%
- 10-year change
- +28.8%
- Peak
- 34.01 (2021)
- Trough
- 22.26 (2007)
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Source: World Bank Open Data (SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS), CC BY 4.0.