{"id":595436,"date":"2026-08-16T23:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/595436\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T23:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:14:09","slug":"punjab-youth-unemployment-up-himachal-pradesh-tops-region-plfs-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/595436\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab youth unemployment up, Himachal Pradesh tops region: PLFS data"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PunjabThe PLFS data showed unemployment rate among persons aged 15-29 years stood at 24.1% in Himachal \u2014 fourth highest in the country after Kerala, Chhattisgarh and Jammu and Kashmir \u2014 and 22.3% in Punjab, compared with 15.9% at all-India level. Chandigarh: Punjab<\/a> and Himachal Pradesh have recorded substantially high unemployment rates, with joblessness among youth higher than the national average, according to latest Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) for April-June 2026 released by National Statistics Office.While unemployment rate in Punjab rose during April June quarter compared with Jan-March, Himachal witnessed a decline. In contrast, Haryana<\/a> recorded a substantially lower rate of joblessness.The PLFS data showed unemployment rate among persons aged 15-29 years stood at 24.1% in Himachal \u2014 fourth highest in the country after Kerala, Chhattisgarh and Jammu and Kashmir \u2014 and 22.3% in Punjab, compared with 15.9% at all-India level.Haryana recorded a youth unemployment rate of 11.8%. In comparison, during previous quarter, unemployment rate among this age group was 20.2% in Punjab, 26.7% in Himachal and 15% at the all-India level.The hill state\u2019s youth unemployment rate was 8.2 percent age points higher than national average, while Punjab\u2019s rate was 6.4 percentage points higher than all-India average. Haryana\u2019s rate was 4.1 percentage points below all-India figure.In the age group of 15 years and above, unemployment rate stood at 8.5% in Punjab, 3.1 percentage points above national average, followed by 6.3% in Himachal and 4.8% in Haryana, against all-India rate of 5.4%.In Punjab, unemployment rate among young women aged 15-29 years, covering rural and urban areas, stood at 31.4%, compared with 19.5% among young men. In Himachal, corresponding rates were 34.4% for women and 18.4% for men.Haryana logged rates of 15.6% for young women and 11.2% for young men, which were 19.6% for young women and 14.5% (young men) nationally.Punjab recorded unemployment rates of 7.9% for men and 10.3% for women in 15 years-and-above category. In Haryana, rates were 5.0% for men and 3.9% for women, while Himachal recorded 6.4% for men and 6.1% for women.The all-India rates were 5.3% for men and 5.7% for women.Among those aged 15-29 years, Labour Force Participation Rate, which measures the proportion of the population that is either employed or unemployed and available for work, stood at 47.6% in Punjab, 45.8% in Himachal and 36.0% in Haryana, compared with 40.7% nationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The PLFS data showed unemployment rate among persons aged 15-29 years stood at 24.1% in Himachal \u2014 fourth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[252137,72,80472,252139,113,252143,252126,252142,252125,252123,61,60,252140,252138,252131,252132,252135,252128,252129,94193,252127,252141,252124,252122,252136,252130,252134,252133],"class_list":["post-595436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-all-india-unemployment-rate","tag-business","tag-chandigarh","tag-chhattisgarh-youth-unemployment","tag-economy","tag-haryana-employment-statistics","tag-haryana-youth-unemployment-rate","tag-himachal-employment-statistics","tag-himachal-pradesh-unemployment-rate","tag-himachal-pradesh-youth-unemployment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jammu-and-kashmir-youth-unemployment","tag-kerala-youth-unemployment","tag-labour-force-participation-rate","tag-lfpr","tag-men-unemployment-15-29","tag-national-statistics-office","tag-nso-labour-data","tag-periodic-labour-force-survey","tag-plfs-april-june-2026","tag-punjab-employment-statistics","tag-punjab-unemployment-rate","tag-punjab-youth-unemployment","tag-rural-and-urban-unemployment","tag-unemployment-rate-15-29-years","tag-women-unemployment-15-29","tag-youth-joblessness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}