How Bad Is China’s Economy? The Data Needed to Answer Is Vanishing

 

Beijing has stopped publishing hundreds of statistics, making it harder to know what’s going on in the country

By 

Rebecca Feng

 and 

Jason Douglas

May 4, 2025 9:00 pm ET

Not long ago, anyone could comb through a wide range of official data from China. Then it started to disappear. 

Land sales measures, foreign investment data and unemployment indicators have gone dark in recent years. Data on cremations and a business confidence index have been cut off. Even official soy sauce production reports are gone.

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