Net annual addition to employment on Usual Principal Status (UPS) basis went up from 5.47 million during 1993-94 to 1999-2000, to 9.58 million during 1999-2000 to 2004-05 Simultaneously, however, according to the sixty-first round estimates, during 1999-2000 to 2004-05, the labour force grew even faster at an annual rate of 2.54 per cent compared to the annual employment growth of 2.48 per cent. As a result, despite the faster growth of employment, unemployment (on UPS basis) was higher at 3.06 per cent of the labour force in 2004-05, as compared to 2.78 in 1999-2000. Incidence of unemployment had come down from 2.88 per cent in 1983 (thirty-eight round) to 2.62 per cent in 1993-94 (Table 10.4)