Chinas missing numbers

Published: Dec. 16, 2023, 2:40 a.m.

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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\\u2019s missing numbers.

Reporter: Celia Hatton \\nSeries Producer: Tom Colls \\nSound Engineer: Graham Puddifoot \\nEditor: Richard Vadon

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

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