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Observation period
Sep 2024
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Forecast
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Highest
23.50 % on Apr 30, 2020
Lowest
6.40 % on Sep 30, 2022
About India unemployment rate
In India, the unemployment rate is estimated by directly interviewing a large sample of randomly selected households. Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy Consumer Pyramids panel of households includes over 174,405 households including over 522,000 members who are over 15 years old.
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Frequently Asked Questions
To calculate India unemployment rate you need to take the number of the country residents without a job and looking for work divided by the total number of residents in the labor force.
The lowest ever India unemployment rate is 6.40%.
The highest figure India unemployment rate has ever reached is 23.50%.
Last month India unemployment rate was 7.80%, and the month before that it amounted to 8.50%.