India out of work: Unemployed youth become

May 21, 2025

About 28 million unemployed educated youth in India are looking for jobs. And about 100 million, mostly women, have stopped looking for jobs.

by Santosh Mehrotra

The employment rate, or the share of the working-age and youth population finding work [1], is falling in India.

Our own study, based on an Indian government agency data [2], however, shows, that this is not the case.

However, that is because of its definitions of what is