11 Provinces Register Double Digit Unemployment Rate in Q3

Eleven provinces registered double digit unemployment rate for people of ages 15 and above in the current Iranian year’s third quarter (Sept. 23-Dec. 21).
Hamedan with 15.3% had the highest rate followed by Kermanshah with 13.2%, Lorestan with 12.8%, West Azarbaijan with 12.1%, Ardabil with 12%, Khuzestan and Isfahan with 11.4% each, Kerman with 11.3%, Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari and Kurdestan with 10.9% each and Yazd with 10.5%, the Statistical Center of Iran reported.
The overall unemployment, the proportion of the jobless population of ages 15 and above, stood at 8.9% in Q3, indicating a 0.5% decline compared with the same period of last year.