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110mn informal sector workers in India: Data

Calculation puts the value added and employment share of the informal sector outside agriculture at 6% and 19% respectively

Updated on: Jun 15, 2024, 07:24:13 IST
By Roshan Kishore, New Delhi
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There were around 65 million informal or unincorporated non-agricultural enterprises in India in 2022-23, which employed about 110 million workers and created Gross Value Added (GVA) worth ₹15.4 lakh crore in nominal terms, a government report said on Friday.

A vendor sells onions at a wholesale vegetable market in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India. (AP)
A vendor sells onions at a wholesale vegetable market in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India. (AP)

A back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that this puts the value added and employment share of the informal sector outside agriculture at 6% and 19% respectively. When read with the 45% employment and 18% income share of agriculture in the overall GVA,

 
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Roshan Kishore

Roshan Kishore is the Data and Political Economy Editor at Hindustan Times. He heads the newsroom's data journalism team, which produces Number Theory, a daily data-driven feature for the print edition and the HT app. Number Theory uses data analysis and story-telling based on it to add value to the newsroom’s daily coverage by putting stories in a larger context on a range of issues, including politics, macroeconomy, markets, global affairs and climate. Under his leadership HT’s data journalism work has established itself as a niche product in Indian journalism and pushed the boundaries of marrying academic rigour with news sense and speed. Along with writing and editing data stories, he has also been writing a weekly political economy column called Terms of Trade for HT Premium. A trained economist with an MPhil degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Kishore has also been a visiting fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies of India (CASI) at the University of Pennsylvania. Along with his journalistic work, his writings have also appeared in journals such as the Economic and Political Weekly and working papers for CASI and UNESCAP.

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