International Labour Day: Profiling the Indian workforce

Rapidly catching up with China to become the most populous country in the world, India, with 1.3 billion people running a $2.4 trillion economy, is the world’s fastest growing economy at the moment. The Indian economy is led by the services sector, but the workforce composition is still led by agriculture. On the occasion of May Day, or International Workers Day, we look at the social profile of workers in India: