Child Laborers Increasing in Iran

The Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare’s Statistics and Strategic Data Center has recently published a special report on child population, literacy and labor in Iran.
The report shows 16,966,712 persons were in the 6-19 age-group in the fiscal 2017-18, of whom 51.6% were boys and 48.4% girls. This population had increased from 16,417,295 in the fiscal 2015-16 to 16,665,518 in the fiscal 2016-17. 
In this age-group, 98.5% were literate in the fiscal 2016-17, of whom 51.6% were boys and 48.4% girls. A total of 1,682,346 dropped out of the education system that year, of whom 46.4% were boys and 53.6% girls. A total of 246,288 or 1.5% of children were illiterate, of whom 49.6% were boys and 50.4% girls.