Cooperatives Ministry Reviews Youth Labor Market Conditions

Twenty-five percent of youth householders (those between 15 and 25 years) fell into the first income decile (those with the lowest income) in the year ending March 2020, Welfare Department of the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare reported the data cited by the ministry’s Center of Statistics.  
Iran’s youth population has decreased from 20% in the year ending March 2012 to 14.8% in the year ending March 2017 to 13.4% in the year ending March 2020. The youth population is expected to rebound from the year ending March 2022 for a period of 15 years. 
Over the past decade, youth unemployment hovered around the alarming rate of 25%; in the year ending March 2017, it even reached 30%. The share of workforce in general and young workforce in particular has been on a downtrend in industrial and agricultural sectors.