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Biden calls China a 'ticking time bomb' due to economic troubles (ground.news)

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[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I was going to say that seemed like a weird range to cherry pick. I have to imagine the 16-17 crowd in the US is like, 25-50% employed at best, and that's 2/9. 5-6/9 in that range are school age if you count college.

I wonder what that looks like for the US

[–] BlackKong@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it's 7.5% for the US and 13.9% for the Euro zone. India, which has a similar population to China is at 17.9% which is so much lower than I would have imagined.