India Unemployment Rate
The share of people who want a job and are actively looking, but can't find one, per India's Periodic Labour Force Survey (Current Weekly Status).
6.9%
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Apr 2025 to Sep 2026
Source: MoSPI eSankhyiki API · PLFS, Current Weekly Status, monthly, not seasonally adjusted (MoSPI's own monthly bulletin states this explicitly).
India Unemployment Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In India, the unemployment rate rose by 0.1pp over the year to Sep 2026, from 6.8% in Sep 2025.
India is 15th of 62 countries in our Unemployment Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- MoSPI eSankhyiki API
- Series
- See the citation below
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Sep 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Only available from 2025 onwards, when MoSPI (the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation) moved to monthly publication; earlier data at this frequency doesn't exist.
Data refreshed 2026-10-28. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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