West Bengal in numbers

Year-on-year CPI inflation (base 2024=100), combined rural and urban. Source: MoSPI, Consumer Price Index (base 2024=100), State/UT-wise.

Unemployment rate in urban areas, persons aged 15 and above, current weekly status. Source: MoSPI, Periodic Labour Force Survey, Quarterly Bulletin.

Unemployment rate, persons aged 15 and above, rural and urban combined, current weekly status. State estimates rest on small samples (the bulletin publishes their standard errors), so small gaps between states are not meaningful. Source: MoSPI, Periodic Labour Force Survey, Quarterly Bulletin.

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.

Worker population ratio: employed persons 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.

Female labour force participation rate: women working or seeking work as a share of all women aged 15 and above, rural and urban combined, current weekly status. Source: MoSPI, Periodic Labour Force Survey, Quarterly Bulletin.

Dropout rate at the secondary stage (classes 9 to 12, NEP structure), boys and girls together, UDISE+ 2025-26. State figures can swing sharply between years (West Bengal 20.3% in 2024-25, 1.5% in 2025-26), so compare states within a year. Source: Ministry of Education, UDISE+ 2025-26 report (NEP structure).

Children under five who are stunted (height-for-age more than two standard deviations below the WHO median), NFHS-6 (2023-24) fact sheets, which the survey calls provisional. Manipur was not covered in NFHS-6; small states and UTs have small samples. Source: IIPS and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, National Family Health Survey (NFHS-6) 2023-24, India and State/UT Fact Sheets.

Share of births in the five years before the survey that took place in a health facility, NFHS-6 (2023-24) fact sheets, which the survey calls provisional. Manipur was not covered in NFHS-6. Source: IIPS and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, National Family Health Survey (NFHS-6) 2023-24, India and State/UT Fact Sheets.

Infant deaths per 1,000 live births, 2024, Sample Registration System. For the eight smaller states (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura) and the six UTs the figure is the 2022-24 average, because their samples are small; the 2023 comparison is shown for the bigger states only. Source: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India, Sample Registration System Statistical Report 2024.

Total fertility rate (children per woman), 2024, bigger states and UTs, Sample Registration System. Replacement level is about 2.1. Source: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India, Sample Registration System Statistical Report 2024.

Expectation of life at birth in years, both sexes, 2020-24, bigger states and UTs, SRS abridged life tables. Source: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India, SRS-based Abridged Life Tables 2020-24.

Average monthly per capita consumption expenditure in rural areas, rupees at current prices (HCES, without imputation). Source: MoSPI, Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES), Factsheet 2023-24.

Crimes against women registered per lakh women (IPC/BNS and Special and Local Laws), 2024. These are cases registered: NCRB cautions that more registration can reflect better reporting, and that states should not be compared on these figures alone. Source: National Crime Records Bureau (Ministry of Home Affairs), Crime in India 2024, Volume I.

Installed renewable power capacity (solar, wind, small hydro, bio-power and large hydro) located in each state, in gigawatts, at the end of the month. The all-India total also includes 0.05 GW MNRE lists under 'Others', which no state row carries. Source: Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, State-wise (location based) installed capacity of renewable power, served by MoSPI's data server.

Stage of groundwater extraction: annual extraction for all uses as a share of the annual extractable groundwater resource. Above 100% a state draws more than is replenished. Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu fell from 142.17% to 40.45% in 2025 after its extraction estimate was cut from 0.16 to 0.05 bcm. Source: Central Ground Water Board, National Compilation on Dynamic Ground Water Resources of India, 2025.