Sidharth Dhananjayan
10th June 2021
On 3rd Jan 2020 , Chinese officials provided information to WHO on the cluster of cases of ‘viral pneumonia of unknown cause’ identified in Wuhan, China.
In China, from 3 January 2020 to 3:27pm CEST, 5 June 2021, there have been 113,565 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 5,033 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 13 May 2021, a total of 388,313,603 vaccine doses have been administered.
We take a look at a few economic indicators in China during this period - Shanghai Stock exchange Index, Unemployment rates, Government Expenditure, Revenue , Exports and Imports,
Shanghai Stock exchange composite index and volume - Yahoo finance. Retrieved 5th June 2021 from https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/000001.SS?p=000001.SS (Historical data, 5 years, download CSV (98KB))
Unemployment Rate - National Bureau of statistics of China. Retrieved 5th June 2021 from https://data.stats.gov.cn/english/easyquery.htm?cn=A01 (Statistical database, monthly data : Indicators -> The Urban Surveyed Unemployment Rate -> The Urban Surveyed Unemployment Rate -> download CSV (LATEST24) (1.2KB)
Government Expenditure & revenue - National Bureau of statistics of China. Retrieved 5th June 2021 from https://data.stats.gov.cn/english/easyquery.htm?cn=A01 (Statistical database, monthly data: Indicators -> Government Finance -> Government Expenditure/Government revenue -> Download CSV (LATEST24) (768B)
Imports and Exports - National Bureau of statistics of China. Retrieved 5th June 2021 from https://data.stats.gov.cn/english/easyquery.htm?cn=A01 (Statistical database, monthly data : Indicators -> Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation -> Total Value of Imports and Exports -> Download CSV (LATEST24) (4KB)
Shanghai Stock exchange composite index and volume - Yahoo finance. Retrieved 5th June 2021 from https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/000001.SS?p=000001.SS (Historical data, 5 years, download (CSV)(98KB))
Unemployment Rate - National Bureau of statistics of China. Retrieved 5th June 2021 from https://data.stats.gov.cn/english/easyquery.htm?cn=A01 (Statistical database, monthly data Unemployment data : Indicators -> The Urban Surveyed Unemployment Rate -> The Urban Surveyed Unemployment Rate -> CSV (1.2KB)
Government Expenditure - National Bureau of statistics of China. Retrieved 5th June 2021 from https://data.stats.gov.cn/english/easyquery.htm?cn=A01 (Statistical database, monthly data: Indicators -> Government Finance -> Government Expenditure/Government Revenue -> Download CSV (LATEST24) (768B)/(6KB)
Imports and Exports - National Bureau of statistics of China. Retrieved 5th June 2021 from https://data.stats.gov.cn/english/easyquery.htm?cn=A01 (Statistical database, monthly data : Indicators -> Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation -> Total Value of Imports and Exports -> Download CSV (LATEST24) (4KB)
Covid timelines - Listings of WHO’s response to COVID-19, World Health Organization, 29 June 2020 (Last updated 28 December 2020). Available at https://www.who.int/news/item/29-06-2020-covidtimeline