The National Statistical Office (NSO) has released the inaugural report titled “Unincorporated Sector at the District Level: Insights from ASUSE 2025”. It provides granular data on enterprises across various districts for the first time.
The report highlights that the top 10 districts are concentrated within 4 states: Gujarat, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal. The top 50 districts are distributed across 12 states.
According to the first-ever district-level estimates of the “Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises” (ASUSE) released by the National Statistical Office (NSO), Haryana has emerged as the leading state in the informal non-agricultural sector.
It has 7 districts in the top 50 nationally ranked by Gross Value Added (GVA) per worker. Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and Telangana follow with 6 districts each. The report highlights that 33% of the informal sector activity of India is concentrated in the 50 most productive districts, with 40 of these districts located in just 8 states.
The national average GVA per worker in the informal sector is ₹1.56 lakh. Satara (Maharashtra) recorded the highest productivity at ₹8.7 lakh per worker, followed by Fatehgarh Sahib (Punjab) and Tonk (Rajasthan). Telangana and the Northeastern states recorded the highest female participation in the informal workforce.
According to the Quarterly Estimates of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) released by the National Statistical Office (NSO), the Real GDP of India grew by 7.8% in Q1 FY27 (April-June 2026), compared to 6.9% in Q1 FY26.
This is the first release to use the revised base year of 2022-23 for the National Accounts Statistics (NAS). The GDP at Constant Prices (2022-23) for Q1 FY27 is estimated at ₹81.36 lakh crore, while it stood at ₹75.46 lakh crore in Q1 FY26. The GDP at Current Prices is estimated at ₹88.27 lakh crore (against ₹80 lakh crore in Q1 FY26), reflecting a growth rate of 10.3%.
According to the “Monthly Bulletin of the Periodic Labour Force Survey” (PLFS) for July 2026 released by the National Statistics Office (NSO) under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), the unemployment rate (UR) of India declined to 5.1% in July 2026 from 5.5% recorded in June 2026.
According to the Quarterly Bulletin of the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) for April-June 2026 released by the National Statistical Office (NSO), the Unemployment Rate (UR) for persons aged 15 years and above rose to 5.4% in the April-June 2026 quarter.
The overall Labour Force Participation Rate (LFPR) for individuals aged 15 years and above decreased to 54.6% compared to 55.5% in the preceding quarter. The rural LFPR declined to 56.9% from 58.2% in the previous quarter, while the urban LFPR remained unchanged at 50.2%.
According to the 15th edition of the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) Monthly Bulletin released by the National Statistical Office (NSO), the overall unemployment rate for individuals aged 15 and above remained unchanged at 5.5% in June 2026.
The unemployment rate in rural areas decreased from 5.1% in May 2026 to 5% in June 2026, while the rate in urban areas increased from 6.4% to 6.6%. The Labour Force Participation Rate for persons aged 15 and above stood at 54.4% in June 2026, and the Worker Population Ratio at the all-India level was 51.4%.
The National Statistics Office (NSO) has released the Provisional Estimates (PE) of annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the FY26 and the quarterly estimates for the fourth quarter (Q4) of FY26.
India’s real GDP growth for FY26 is estimated at 7.7%, reflecting a 60 basis points (bps) increase from 7.1% in FY25. Real GDP at constant (2022-23) prices is estimated at ₹323.12 lakh crore for FY26, compared to ₹299.89 lakh crore in the First Revised Estimates (FRE) for FY25
Nominal GDP at current prices grew by 8.9% in FY26 to reach ₹346.36 lakh crore, compared to 9.7% growth and a value of ₹318.07 lakh crore in the previous financial year. These estimates are based on a revised base year of 2022-23, which was introduced by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) in February 2026, replacing the previous 2011-12 base year.
In Q4 FY26, real GDP grew by 7.8%, with the value estimated at ₹87.77 lakh crore, up from ₹81.40 lakh crore in Q4 FY25. Meanwhile, nominal GDP in Q4 FY26 registered a growth rate of 9.1%, reaching an estimated value of ₹94.65 lakh crore compared to ₹86.75 lakh crore in Q4 FY25.
The National Statistics Office (NSO) has notified uniform guidelines for the compilation of Gross State Value Added (GSVA), designating 2022-23 as the new base year.
It is to be noted that 34 States and Union Territories (UTs) currently use 2011-12 as the base year for Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) estimates, except for Lakshadweep and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) seeks to onboard all States and UTs under the new series.