Iran Economic Growth

Productivity was expected to contribute 30% of Iran’s economic growth as per the fourth and fifth five-year development plans (2006-11 and 2011-12) respectively, the head of National Iranian…

Motor vehicle crashes cost Iran as much as 6-7% of the country’s gross domestic product, the head of Air Emergency Medical Services said on Monday.  Noting that road accidents claimed the…

Out of 44 selected industrial and mineral products surveyed by the Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade, the production of 31 items experienced growth and 13 others saw a decline during the…

Capital Intelligence Ratings (CI Ratings), the international credit rating agency, said Iran’s current account surplus is expected to have increased to 4.5% of GDP in 2017, which was 4% in 2016…

Capital Intelligence Ratings (CI Ratings), the international credit rating agency, has announced that it has affirmed Iran's Long-Term Foreign and Local Currency Sovereign Ratings at 'BB-' and…

The Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare’s Center of Statistics has published Iran’s provincial share of GDP for the fiscal 2015-16. 

Tehran Province, wherein lies the…

As the impact of the previous year’s boost in oil production and exports dissipates, Iran's overall growth rate is expected to stabilize at around 4.2%, with a larger contribution from the non-…

Iran's gross domestic product grew 3.4% during the first three quarters of the current fiscal year (March 21-Dec. 21, 2017) compared with last year's corresponding period, according to the…

Iran's economy grew by 4.4% in the first three quarters of the current fiscal year (March 21-Dec. 21, 2017) compared with last year's corresponding period, according to the Statistical Center of…

Growth in population without concurrent economic growth cannot benefit the country from the so-called demographic “window of opportunity”—the period in which the working-age population is…

Iran’s economy grew by 4.5% during the first half of the current fiscal year (March 21-Sept. 22) compared with last year’s corresponding period, the latest report released by the Central Bank of…

Majlis Research Center has forecast a 3% economic growth and an 11.5% inflation rate for the next Iranian year (starting March 21).

Earlier, the research arm of the Iranian Parliament…

Iran's economy grew by 5.6% in the first half of the current fiscal (March 21-August 22) compared to last year's corresponding period, according to the Statistical Center of Iran's latest report…

The United Nations has forecast a 5.3% economic growth for Iran in 2017 in its latest World Economic Situation Prospects. 

The growth is projected to settle at 5.1% and 5% over the…

With $420 billion GDP in 2016 and the telecom sector estimated at $8.5 billion, the telecoms industry accounts for approximately 2% of Iran’s gross domestic product.

The World Bank, in its latest “Iran’s Economic Outlook” report, sees stronger growth in 2018-19 as investment growth turns positive and accelerates along with more political and economic…

The International Monetary Fund in its latest World Economic Outlook report has projected that Iran’s real GDP will expand by 3.5% and 3.8% in 2017 and 2018 respectively. In 2022, the IMF…

Iran's gross domestic product during the first quarter of the current Iranian year (started March 2) stood at 1.8 quadrillion rials ($47 billion), indicating a 6.5% rise compared with last year'…

The Central Bank of Iran has forecast an economic growth of at least 5% for the current Iranian year that ends on March 20, 2018.

Iran economy grew 12.5% in March 2016-17 compared to the preceding year, according to the Central Bank of Iran's latest report released on Sunday.

The strong growth is attributed mainly to…

President Hassan Rouhani, who was reelected last month, reaffirmed his reform plans to develop a climate conducive to a free and competitive economy.

In its latest Global Economic Prospects report, the World Bank has slightly lowered its forecast for Iran's real GDP growth up until 2019, while putting the inflation rate at double digits for…

Iran’s economy grew 8.3% in the last fiscal year (March 2016-17) compared to the year before, the Statistical Center of Iran's latest report shows.

The Central Bank of Iran has published growth figures for the third quarter of the last Iranian year (September 22-December 20, 2016).

According to CBI, the Iranian economy grew 15.7% last…

The 8% growth target set in the sixth five-year development plan (2017-22) is a tall order for the country, a faculty member of Tehran's Allameh Tabatabai University said in a recent conference…