Iran's NEET Unemployment Improves in Five Years to 2019

The share of Iranian youths (ages 15-24) who were neither in employment, education, nor training (NEET, for short) fell from 31.6% in the Iranian year ending March 2015 to 29.7% last year (March 2018-19), a report by the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare shows. 
Over the years under review, NEET rates for young men and women declined by 0.4% and 3.4% respectively. 
Close to 15.6% or 969,341 of young men and 48.1% or 2.92 million of young women were neither at work nor in education or training in the year ending March 2015. 
NEET rates for men and women stood at 15.6% and 46.8% and their population reached 927,738 and 2.68 million respectively in the Iranian year ending March 2016. The overall NEET rate for young people was at 30.9% that year.
In the year ending March 2017, the overall NEET rate for young people stood at 30.2%.The male NEET rate was 16% or 922,007 of men while the female NEET rate was 45.3% or 2.46 million of women in the age-group of 15-24.