- Youth unemployment
- 15.8 % · 2025
- Recent-grad employment
- no data
- Average wage (PPP)
- no data
- Price level
- 48 USA = 100 · 2025
- Housing squeeze
- no data
Jobs & cost of living · China
For recent grads: how easy it is to find work, how good the jobs are, what they pay and what life costs.
Grad view
| Latest | CN |
|---|---|
| Unemployment rate % | 5.12026 |
| Youth unemployment, 15–24 % | 15.82025 |
| Unemployment with a degree % | 3.82000 |
| Not in employment, education or training (NEET) % | 12.72000 |
| Price level of household consumption USA = 100 | 482025 |
| Big Mac price US$ | 3.91H2 2026 |
Unemployment
Unemployment rate
monthly where available · %Youth unemployment, 15–24
US 16–24 · %Unemployment with a degree
advanced education · US bachelor’s, 25–34 · %Graduates
Not in employment, education or training (NEET)
EU 15–29 · elsewhere 15–24 · %Cost of living
Price level of household consumption
how expensive life is at market exchange rates, USA = 100 · USA = 100Big Mac price
NL and EU: euro-area average · US$Not available for China: Unemployment, 25–29, Job vacancy rate, Job openings per unemployed person, Long-term unemployed (1 year +), Quits rate, Employment rate of recent graduates, Employment rate, tertiary-educated 25–34, Graduate earnings premium, Temporary contracts, Temporary contracts, 15–24, Part-time work, Hours worked per worker, per year, Very long hours (50 h + a week), Usual weekly hours, full-time job, Average annual wage, Median full-time wage (approx.), Real wage growth, Minimum wage, hourly, Minimum wage vs median wage, Minimum wage, monthly (EU), Price level now (OECD, monthly), Price level of household consumption (EU27 = 100), Price level: food (EU27 = 100), Price level: housing, water, energy (EU27 = 100), Price level: transport (EU27 = 100), Price level: restaurants and hotels (EU27 = 100), House price-to-income, House price-to-rent, Rents, Housing cost overburden, aged 25–29, Still living with their parents, 25–29.