Unemployment rate in Shanghai, China 1990-2023
In 2023, the surveyed unemployment rate in the Shanghai municipality ranged at 4.5 percent. The Shanghai Statistics Bureau changed the methodology for collecting and calculating the unemployment rate this year, switching from registered unemployment to surveyed unemployment. While registered unemployment did only take into account those people who actively registered as unemployed, surveyed unemployment is based on representative surveys among the labor force and should provide a more accurate picture of actual unemployment.
