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India's Employment Crisis: Youth Unemployment Surges Threefold
5/26/2025
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Story summary
- India's employment landscape is troubling, with the overall rate plummeting from 42% in 2004-2005 to a low of 35% in 2017-2018, before a modest recovery to 41% in 2023-2024. Youth unemployment has surged threefold, leaving millions disheartened and underemployed, while shifts in agriculture and manufacturing threaten to stifle the nation's demographic promise.
