Official data
India: unemployment by year, 2018–2025
Unemployment rate, % of the labor force
Latest year, 2025: 5%
Opens a new analysis with this question: Compare the unemployment rate since 2018 across India, China, Pakistan, and United States.
Method
Official annual series (2018–2025), read directly from the source without adjustments and plotted as published.
- Read. Reads series LUR directly as published by the source.
- Period. Keeps one value per year, 2018 to 2025.
- Chart. Draws the series as a line and marks the latest year.
- The most recent years can be IMF estimates.
- Source
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- Dataset
- World Economic Outlook (October 2026)
- Series code
- LUR
Read from the Belo Lake on November 8, 2026.
Data
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| 2023 | 4.9 |
| 2022 | 5.3 |
| 2021 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 7.5 |
| 2018 | 8.9 |