India Labor Force Participation
India labor force participation data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 55.66%.
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Interpretation
India recorded 55.66% for Labor Force Participation in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.02 percentage points, from 55.64% to 55.66%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (53.39%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 51.55% in 2020 and the high was 55.66% in 2025.