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China’s missing numbers

China’s missing numbers

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats


China’s missing numbers

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats

ratings:
Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Dec 16, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

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)
Released:
Dec 16, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4