Year-end total employed people; millions, 2021–2025, preliminary.
China’s total employed population is tracked at year-end from 2021 through 2025. The five comparable observations are reported in millions of people from official National Bureau of Statistics communiqués. Employment declined from 746.52 million in 2021 to 725.04 million in 2025. The net fall was 21.48 million people, or 2.9%, and the series briefly rose in 2023 before declining again.
Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics of China
Dataset/table: Employment and Migrant Workers, 2021–2025
Units: million persons
Date checked: 2026-07-18
Evidence: Supports total employed people and separated 2025 labour support measures for 2021.
Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics of China
Dataset/table: Employment and Migrant Workers, 2021–2025
Units: million persons
Date checked: 2026-07-18
Evidence: Supports total employed people and separated 2025 labour support measures for 2022.
Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics of China
Dataset/table: Employment and Migrant Workers, 2021–2025
Units: million persons
Date checked: 2026-07-18
Evidence: Supports total employed people and separated 2025 labour support measures for 2023.
Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics of China
Dataset/table: Employment and Migrant Workers, 2021–2025
Units: million persons
Date checked: 2026-07-18
Evidence: Supports total employed people and separated 2025 labour support measures for 2024.
Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics of China
Dataset/table: Employment and Migrant Workers, 2021–2025
Units: million persons
Date checked: 2026-07-18
Evidence: Supports total employed people and separated 2025 labour support measures for 2025.
The primary chart does not combine total employment with migrant-worker counts or newly created urban jobs. The official annual figures are preliminary.
The primary series uses only the year-end total employed population from each annual communiqué; migrant-worker totals and new urban jobs remain separately labelled support indicators.
All five primary observations use the same total-employment concept, year-end timing and million-person unit.
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