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Rome: India stands at the threshold of reaping its demographic dividend, yet a significant portion of its working-age population remains employed in the non-productive agricultural sector, claims the latest report prepared jointly by the International Labour Organization (ILO) United Nations body on labour rights and issues and Institute of Human Development, a Delhi-based labour policy think tank...
For the years 2000 and 2012, the report uses the National Sample Survey rounds on employment and for 2019 and 2022 it uses the Periodic Labour Force Participation Surveys...
The report states that Indias working-age population (age 15-59) has increased from 59 percent in 2011 to about 63 percent in 2022, however, fewer youngsters are working...
The report also mentions that from 2000 to 2012, Indias non-agricultural employment rose by 3.86 percentage points..
At the same time, the share of the population employed in agriculture in 2022remains huge 45 percent of Indias labour force is producing just 16 percent of the total GDP, which is the agriculture sectors contribution...
