Following the official resumption of disclosing urban survey unemployment rates by age group in December 2023, data for January and February 2024 has been released. In February, the unemployment rate for the labor force aged 16-24, excluding students, reached 15.3%, higher than January's 14.6% and December 2023's 14.9%. Previously, on March 18, the National Bureau of Statistics announced that the urban survey unemployment rates for January and February 2024 were 5.2% and 5.3%, respectively, with an average of 5.3% for both months. This indicates that the youth unemployment rates in January and February, excluding students, were 9.4 and 10 percentage points higher than the overall unemployment rate for the same period.