How India works and gets paid

Data source: Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Periodic Labour Force Survey. Rates use Current Weekly Status for people aged 15 years and above. This monthly series begins with the redesigned survey in 2025.

Data source: Info Edge investor disclosures, Naukri JobSpeak. The index follows activity on Naukri and can move with the platform’s coverage as well as the labour market.

Data source: World Bank World Development Indicators. Employment shares are modelled International Labour Organization estimates. Value-added shares use national accounts and do not sum to 100 because taxes less subsidies are outside the three sectors.

Data source: Reserve Bank of India, quarterly performance of the private corporate business sector. Each value is 100 divided by the source’s staff-cost-to-sales percentage. A quarter is left blank when the RBI gives no exact sector ratio.

Data sources: Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation and Employees’ State Insurance Corporation. EPFO net payroll equals first-time entries less exits plus members who rejoined. ESIC reports new insurance registrations separately. The two systems cover different workers and are not added together. EPFO’s newest official component workbook currently ends in July 2025; the collector checks the source daily and will advance only when a newer complete workbook is published.

Data source: Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation Quarterly Bulletin of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises. Survey estimates cover unincorporated non-agricultural establishments. Quarterly estimates have wider sampling uncertainty than annual estimates; the source publishes confidence intervals and relative standard errors.

Data source: Labour Bureau Rural Wage Rates. Figures are for general agricultural labourers as of 1 January 2026. The Labour Bureau sample expanded from 600 villages in 20 states and union territories to 787 villages in 34 from July 2025. Levels before and after July 2025 come from different samples.

Data source: Ministry of Rural Development, published through the Press Information Bureau. The total is the sum reported in the completed-year state table as of 31 March 2025. MGNREGA was repealed when a new rural employment guarantee law took effect on 1 July 2026. Successor data will begin as a separate series rather than being joined silently to this history.

Data source: Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, published through the Press Information Bureau. Current and previous-season areas compare the same observation date. The normal-area figures in the source refer to a full season and are not used for the progress comparison.

Data source: India Meteorological Department state-wise rainfall distribution. The figures are cumulative for the stated monsoon period and can change every day.

Data source: Central Water Commission Reservoir Storage Monitoring System. Latest all-India storage monitored by the Central Water Commission's Reservoir Storage Monitoring System. The reservoir set expands over time, so storage volume and capacity share should be read together.

Data source: PM-Kisan official period-wise dashboard. Each observation is one four-month instalment period.