Services Share of Job Market in Fiscal 2020-21 at 49.3%

The services sector employed 49.3% of the Iranian employed population (11.46 million) in the last Iranian year (March 2020-21), 1% less than the year before, whereas industrial and agricultural sectors generated 33.3% and 17.4% of jobs respectively. 
Latest data released by the Statistical Center of Iran show over 7.74 million were employed in the industrial sector, indicating an increase of 1.3% compared with the year before and 4.04 million worked in agriculture, posting a 0.3% decrease YOY. 
The services sector consists of wholesale and retail trade; restaurants and hotels; transport, storage and communications; financing, insurance, real estate and business, as well as community, social, education, health and personal services.
The sector employed 9.43 million men and 2.03 million women last year; over 6.8 million men and 941,566 women were working in the industrial sector, and 3.36 million men and 678,689 women worked in the agriculture sector.