About one in six working-age people in Nagaland — 16.07% — are unemployed even as the state records an employment rate of 83.92%, according to a government survey released today. The findings highlight persistent skills shortages, uneven household incomes and migration patterns that continue to reshape the northeastern Indian state.

The “Survey Report on Employment, Unemployment, Skill and Migration in Nagaland 2025,” produced by the Directorate of Economics & Statistics, covered 4,395 households — 1,315 in urban areas and 3,080 in rural areas — and included samples from newly created districts Shamator, Niuland, Chumoukedima, Tseminyu and Meluri within the existing district framework. The study set out to determine the state of human resource utilisation by measuring skill, employment an

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