Unemployment rate drops to 6.43%: These states have highest number of unemployed - check full list

Unemployment rate in India: The unemployment rate has drastically dropped to 6.43 per cent in the month of September, according to Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE). It is a fall of 1.85 per cent since August this year when India had recorded an unemployment rate of 8.28 per cent. 

The unemployment rate in the rural areas fell to 5.84 per cent in September from 7.68 per cent in August, while in the urban areas it dropped to 7.70 per cent against 9.57 per cent in the previous month, according to the data.

The drop-in unemployment rate comes as a relief as August had recorded the highest unemployment rate since august 2021. Last month, the unemployment rate surged to 8.3 per cent as employment sequentially fell by 2 million to 394.6 million. The surge in unemployment rate in August was said to be due to erratic rain which impacted sowing activities, affected employment in rural India..

State-wise unemployment data  
The CMIE state-wise data showed the highest unemployment rate in Rajasthan at 23.8 per cent in September, followed by Jammu and Kashmir at 23.2 per cent, Haryana at 22.9 per cent, Tripura at 17 per cent, Jharkhand at 12.2 per cent and Bihar at 11.4 per cent. The unemployment was the lowest in Chhattisgarh at 0.1 per cent in September, followed by Assam at 0.4 per cent, Uttrakhand at 0.5 per cent, Madhya Pradesh at 0.9 per cent, Gujarat at 1.6 per cent, Meghalaya at 2.3 per cent and Odisha at 2.9 per cent, the data showed.

Maharashtra recorded an unemployment rate of 4.0 per cent whereas the national capital, Delhi recorded the unemployment rate of 9.6 per cent.