NEW DELHI, Aug. 10 -- The pace of joblessness as well as the ratio of workers' population in India stayed almost flat year-on-year during the April-June quarter of this fiscal, reflecting no sign of expansion or contraction in the country's job market.
The rate of unemployment, which measures the working-age population without jobs, stood at 5.5 per cent in the reporting quarter compared to 5.6 per cent a year ago, showed the latest data released by the statistics ministry on Monday.
The overall worker population ratio remained unchanged at 51.4 per cent in June 2026, compared to the previous month and registered a slight increase of 0.2 percentage points from 51.2 per cent recorded in June 2025, the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Imp...