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Food delivery platforms employed 1.37 mn in FY24: NCAER
Business Standard
|December 19, 2025
The food delivery platform sector in India employed 1.37 million workers in the 2023-24 (FY24) and is expanding at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.3 per cent, estimates a new report released by the Delhi-based think tank National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER).
"The food delivery platform (sector) directly employed 1.08 million workers in 2021-22 and 1.37 million in 2023-24. This formed 0.2 per cent share of total workers in both 2021-22 and 2023-24. Employment in the sector grew at a CAGR of 12.3 per cent between 2021-22 and 2023-24, compared to all-India CAGR of 7.9 per cent," noted The report titled: "Impact of food delivery platform sector on the Indian economy".
Niti Aayog has estimated the total number of gig workers in the economy at 7.7 million in 2020-21 (FY21), projecting the gig workforce to expand to 23.5 million by 2029-30 (FY30).
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