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China鈥檚 missing numbers

How the Chinese state make inconvenient statistics on youth unemployment and covid deaths disappear.

How many young people are unemployed? How much debt does the government owe? How many people have died from Covid?

These are questions that many governments will keep regularly updated. But in China they have disappeared.

We investigate the reasons behind China鈥檚 missing numbers.

Reporter: Celia Hatton
Series Producer: Tom Colls
Sound Engineer: Graham Puddifoot
Editor: Richard Vadon

(Picture: Chinese flag behind a graph with statistics
Credit: Igor Kutyaev/iStock/Getty Images Plus)

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9 minutes

Last on

Mon 18 Dec 2023 00:50GMT

Broadcasts

  • Sat 16 Dec 2023 05:50GMT
  • Sat 16 Dec 2023 11:50GMT
  • Sat 16 Dec 2023 16:50GMT
  • Sun 17 Dec 2023 09:50GMT
  • Sun 17 Dec 2023 11:50GMT
  • Sun 17 Dec 2023 22:50GMT
  • Mon 18 Dec 2023 00:50GMT

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