Iran Unemployment Rises to 12.2% (Jun-Sep 2018)

Iran’s unemployment rate, the proportion of jobless population of ages 10 years and above, stood at 12.2% in the second quarter of the current Iranian year (June 22-Sept. 22), registering a 0.7% increase compared with the same period of last year. 
A total of 3,326,000 Iranians were unemployed in the second quarter, the latest report by the Statistical Center of Iran shows.
Women's unemployment stood at 19.8% while for men it hovered around 10.3%, as over 2.25 million men and 1.07 million women of ages 10 and above were jobless in the second quarter.  
The unemployment rate was 13.8% for urban areas (2.79 million people) and 7.6% for rural areas (535,724 people).