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India: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1994–2025 · 22 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
4.51%percent
Change on 2024
−0.4 pointsfrom 4.94%
Average, 2016–2025
6.91%10 years
Record high and low
10.7% (2009)low 2.15% (1994)

Unemployment rate

Report error
2%4%6%8%10%12%19952000200520102015202020252030IndiaIndia, 1994: 2.15%India
ForecastPercent

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20314.94Forecast
20304.94Forecast
20294.94Forecast
20284.94Forecast
20274.94Forecast
20264.94Forecast
20254.51
20244.94
20234.94
20225.30
20217.36
20208.66
20197.48
20188.90
20178.50
20168.50

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1994–2025
  • International Labour Organization2000–2023
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2024
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2025
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor2007–2021
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2018–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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