Q4 Employment Rate at 36.6%: SCI

The employment rate was 36.6% (23.17 million) in the fourth quarter of last Iranian year (Dec. 22, 2021-March 20), down 0.3% compared with the same quarter of the previous Iranian year, latest data provided by the Statistical Center of Iran show.
Employment rates for men and women were 62.3% and 10.9%, respectively, which constituted 19.72 million men and 3.45 million women. The rate was 36% (17.58 million people) in urban areas and 38.5% (5.59 million) in rural areas. 
The share of employment of university graduates stood at 26.6% of the total employed population, wherein male and female graduate employment rates were 22.9% and 48.7%, respectively. In urban and rural areas, graduate employment rates stood at 32.2% and 8.9% of the total number of job-holders, respectively.