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China’s 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’s 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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