‘Migration Pandemic’ Sweeping Across Iran

Around 65,000 people on average are emigrating from Iran for different reasons every year. 
Previously, better opportunities attracted Iranians to other countries, but now bad conditions at home has become the main reason of emigration, according to the head of Iran Migration Observatory (Imobs).
“Based on the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization and World Bank figures for 2022, general expenses [imposed on the government] for each individual amounts to around $120,000 on average. A breakdown of this figure shows around $45,059 are spent on healthcare and $69,541 on primary, secondary, high school and undergraduate education. This means that along with our emigrating population, billions of dollars are being taken away every year,” Bahram Salavati was also quoted as saying by the Persian economic daily Donya-e-Eqtesad.
The official noted that if migration was once an epidemic among university students and talents, it has now become contagious and turned into a pandemic among skilled workers and laborers from all sectors, adding that this will lead to a severe shortage of workforce in the country in the years to come.