The average annual inflation gap measured by the Statistical Center of Iran among income deciles stood at 4% in the sixth Iranian month (Aug. 23-Sept. 22), indicating a 1.4 percentage point…
Domestic Economy
Iranian container shipping stood at 906,218 TEUs during the first five months of the current fiscal year (March 21-Aug. 22), registering a 13% increase year-on-year, says Farhad Montasar-…
The Iranian Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce is scheduled to organize a course titled “Supply Chain Finance” in Tehran in October. The committee plans to hold classes on…
Steel frames and reinforced concrete were used in the construction of 52% of residential units in urban areas and 22.3% in rural areas in the year ending March 2020, according to a recent report…
Iran’s commercial exchanges with its leading trading partner, China, stood at $9.33 billion in the first eight months of 2021, registering a 4.8% decline compared with the corresponding period…
Iran exported 3.26 million tons of agricultural and food products worth $1.87 billion in the first five months of the current fiscal year (March 21-Aug. 22). The figures indicate a 6.58% rise…
Piles of cargos, particularly essential goods, that have not been cleared by the consignee are posing problems to most Iranian ports. Shahram Bakhshipour, the head of the Port Terminal…
The services sector grew by 7% in the first quarter of the current fiscal year that started on March 21 compared with last year’s corresponding period, according to the Central Bank of Iran.
Six million doses of Sinopharm vaccines arrived at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Airport on Sept. 26, bringing the total volume of imported Covid-19 vaccines to 71.32 million doses, Mehrdad Jamal…
The 13th International Iranian Stone Exhibition (aka Iran Stone Expo) is scheduled to be held from Oct. 12-15 in the city of Mahallat, located in the central Markazi Province. Some 500…
Because of the failing subsidy system in Iran, some high-income individuals have raced ahead while those who fall into low-income deciles have been left behind and become poorer, Vahid Shaqaqi-…
Iran’s non-oil foreign trade stood at 79.1 million tons worth $45 billion during the first half of the current Iranian year (March 21-Sept. 22), registering a 47% growth in value compared with…
A total of 280,000 tons of colza were produced in Iran in the current crop year, according to the director of Agriculture Ministry’s National Oilseed Project. Noting that production shows a 3%…
Iran’s home appliance and kitchen utensil exports, mainly to Iraq and Afghanistan, stand at $300 million annually, according to the director general of Trade Promotion Organization of Iran's…
A total of 52,800 tons of red meat were produced in official slaughterhouses during the month ending Aug. 22 to register a 43% rise compared with the similar month of last year. Meat output…
Iran’s bid to become a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization dates to one year after it received observer status in 2005. All along, however, the most important legal obstacle to…
A total of 176,000 tons of raisins worth $230 million were exported from Iran in the last Iranian year (March 2020-21), according to a deputy agriculture minister. “Out of the total sum, around…
President Ebrahim Raeisi’s pledge to build one million residential properties annually is a unique opportunity for the revitalization of decaying urban areas of all Iranian metropolises, says…
The average goods and services Consumer Price Index of “furniture, home appliances and their maintenance” in the 12-month period ending Sept. 22, which marks the end of the sixth Iranian month…
Agriculture was the only economic sector in Iran to have experienced negative growth in the first quarter of the current Iranian year that started on March 21. According to the Statistical…
The volume of Covid-19 vaccines imported to Iran has exceeded 65 million doses, as the 56th vaccine shipment containing 5 million doses of Chinese Sinopharm arrived on Sept. 23, according to the…
Iran and the 27 members of the European Union traded a total of €2.58 billion worth of goods during the first seven months of 2021 (January-July), to register a 2.61% decline compared with the…
The number of Iran’s physicians, health workers and hospital beds per capita is not only lower than the average of upper middle-income economies (the income group in which the country has been…
Following a decline in temperature and electricity consumption by domestic users, in addition to growing action against illegal crypto miners, restrictions on power supply to the industrial…
The rising inflation in the country has kept its upward momentum in the sixth month of the current fiscal year (Aug. 23-Sept. 22), latest data released by the Statistical Center of Iran show.
