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Unemployment rate increases marginally to 4.8% in December
Millennium Post Delhi
|Delhi 16 January 2026
Unemployment rate for persons aged 15 years and above rose marginally to 4.8 per cent in December 2025 compared to 4.7 per cent in the preceding month.
The unemployment rate (UR) or joblessness, among persons of age 15 years and above, remained largely stable in December 2025, according to the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) on Thursday.
‘The overall UR is estimated at 4.8 per cent in December 2025 against 4.7 per cent observed in November 2025, it added.
The rural UR remained stagnant at 3.9 per cent, while the urban UR increased to 6.7 per cent from 6.5 per cent in the previous month, the data showed.
Among rural males aged 15 years and above, the UR remained low and stable at 4.1 per cent in December, 2025.
Further, the urban female UR moderated to 9.1 per cent in December 2025 from 9.3 per cent in November 2025.
This story is from the Delhi 16 January 2026 edition of Millennium Post Delhi.
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