Fiscal 2020-21 Employment Rate at 37.3%

The employment rate in the last fiscal year (March 2020-21) was 37.3% (23.26 million), down 2.1% compared with the year before. 
The rates for men and women were 62.9% and 11.7%, respectively, which constituted 19.6 million men and 3.65 million women. 
Employment is defined as persons of working age engaged in any activity to produce goods or provide services for pay or profit, whether at work during the reference period or not at work due to a temporary absence from a job, or to working-time arrangement.