First-ever monthly job data shows India's unemployment rate at 5.1% in April 2025

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NEW DELHI: The rate of unemployment in the country, measured in monthly terms for the first time, stood at 5.1 percent in April this year, showed the government data released on Thursday.

The Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation released the first monthly Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) as part of efforts to monitor the proportion of unemployed people among those eligible for jobs in the country in real time.

Until now, the labour force survey was released on a quarterly as well as annual basis.

The latest data collected in current weekly status (CWS) showed that the unemployment rate for persons of all ages during April 2025 worked out to be 5.1 percent in April 2025. The pace of joblessness among men stayed slightly higher at 5.2 percent compared to that of women at 5 percent.