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What share of Indians aged 15 and above are in the labour force, quarter by quarter?

54.6%
Apr–Jun 2026▼ 0.9 vs Jan–Mar 2026

MoSPI · released 10 Aug 2026 · next due by 5 Dec 2026

What share of Indians aged 15 and above are in the labour force, quarter by quarter?
PeriodValue (%)
Apr–Jun 202654.6
Jan–Mar 202655.5
Oct–Dec 202555.8
Jul–Sep 202555.1
Apr–Jun 202555.0

Use in your answer

India's labour force participation rate was 54.6% in Apr–Jun 2026 (persons aged 15 and above, current weekly status, quarterly bulletin), compared with 55.5% in Jan–Mar 2026. Source: MoSPI, Periodic Labour Force Survey, Quarterly Bulletin.

Cite as: Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), Quarterly Bulletin (NSO, MoSPI), Apr–Jun 2026

What this shows

  • 54.6% of persons aged 15 and above were in the labour force in April–June 2026, down from 55.5% in January–March 2026 and 55.0% in April–June 2025.
  • The gap between men and women is wide: 77.0% of men against 33.2% of women in April–June 2026; rural women (37.2%) participate far more than urban women (25.0%).
  • Among the 22 states in the bulletin, participation in April–June 2026 ranged from 41.4% in Delhi to 67.2% in Himachal Pradesh.

The latest figure, as people Apr–Jun 2026

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Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), Quarterly Bulletin (NSO, MoSPI), Apr–Jun 2026

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Source and method

Source
MoSPI, Periodic Labour Force Survey, Quarterly Bulletin
Table
PLFS Quarterly Bulletin Apr–Jun 2026, Statement 1 (LFPR, CWS, rural + urban, person, 15 years and above, all five quarters); state rows in Appendix A Table 2
Released
10 Aug 2026
Retrieved
20 Oct 2026
Next due
by 5 Dec 2026
Processing
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Licence
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What exactly is measured

Labour force participation rate (LFPR): the share of persons aged 15 and above who are working or looking for work, rural and urban India combined, in current weekly status (CWS), from the Periodic Labour Force Survey quarterly bulletin. PLFS changed its survey design in January 2025; only quarters on the new design, from April–June 2025, are shown, and they are not comparable with older usual-status or urban-only figures.

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Labour force participation by state

Labour force participation rate: persons working or seeking work as a share of the population aged 15 and above, rural and urban combined, current weekly status. Source: MoSPI, Periodic Labour Force Survey, Quarterly Bulletin, Apr–Jun 2026.

Where

JK58.9LA–PB53.3HP67.2UK56.1SK–AR–RJ60.0CH–HR47.7DL41.4UP49.8BR46.8WB57.3AS61.0NL–GJ57.6MP57.7CG52.1JH47.9ML–MN–DH–MH54.7TS58.2OD55.7TR–MZ–GA–KA58.0AP57.4LD–KL51.7TN58.0PY–AN–
41.4% to 67.2% in five equal bands; dashed tiles are not reported. India: 54.6%. Tiles show position, not borders.

Ranked

Ranked highest first · Apr–Jun 2026 · India 54.6%

  1. 1Himachal Pradesh67.2
  2. 2Assam61.0
  3. 3Rajasthan60.0
  4. 4Jammu & Kashmir58.9
  5. 5Telangana58.2
  6. 6Karnataka58.0
  7. 7Tamil Nadu58.0
  8. 8Madhya Pradesh57.7
  9. 9Gujarat57.6
  10. 10Andhra Pradesh57.4
  11. 11West Bengal57.3
  12. 12Uttarakhand56.1
  13. 13Odisha55.7
  14. 14Maharashtra54.7
  15. 15Punjab53.3
  16. 16Chhattisgarh52.1
  17. 17Kerala51.7
  18. 18Uttar Pradesh49.8
  19. 19Jharkhand47.9
  20. 20Haryana47.7
  21. 21Bihar46.8
  22. 22Delhi41.4

How are the states spread?

10 of 22 states fall between 55% and 60%. Each column counts the states in one band of labour force participation; the dashed line is the all-India figure.

Hover a column for the states in it. Bands are equal widths of the state figures, Apr–Jun 2026.

History: every published version

Each time the source changes this series we archive the full series as it stood, with an archived copy of the source, and never delete an old version. Each version has a permanent page you can cite. Recorded since 20 Oct 2026: 1 version.

No figure in this series has been revised since we began recording on 20 Oct 2026.

  1. 5 periods, latest Apr–Jun 2026: 54.6% · first snapshotArchived sourcef10e7f2fd64e
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  • 54.6%Apr–Jun 2026, quarterly bulletin

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