Unemployment Rate in Iran

Unemployment rate for university graduates stood at 13.4% in the first quarter of the current Iranian year (March 21-June 21), posting a 0.1% decrease compared with last year’s corresponding…

Iran’s unemployment rate, the proportion of jobless population of ages 15 and above, stood at 8.8% in the first quarter of the current Iranian year (March 21-June 21), indicating a 1% decline…

The employment rate in the last fiscal year (March 2020-21) was 37.3% (23.26 million), down 2.1% compared with the year before.  The rates for men and women were 62.9% and 11.7%,…

The number of female head of households in Iran increased by 26.8% from 356,117 in the Iranian year ending March 2012 to 439,985 in the year ending March 2020. 

South Khorasan and Khorasan Razavi provinces filed the lowest unemployment rate of 6.2% among all Iranian provinces in the last Iranian year (March 2020-21), according to the Statistical Center…

Unemployment rate for university graduates stood at 14.2% in the last Iranian year (March 2020-21), posting a 2.5% decrease YOY.  Higher education unemployment rate for men stood at 10.4%…

Iran's unemployment rate in the fourth quarter of last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2021) stood at 9.7%, registering a 0.9% decline compared with the corresponding period of the year before,…

The services sector employed 50.4% of the Iranian employed population (11.66 million) in the fourth quarter of last Iranian year (Dec. 21, 2020-March 20), 2.3% less than the corresponding period…

Iran’s unemployment rate, the proportion of jobless population of ages 15 and above, stood at 9.7% in the fourth quarter of last fiscal year (Dec. 21, 2020-March 20), indicating a 0.9% decline…

Ilam and Khorasan Razavi provinces registered the lowest unemployment rate of 5.1% among all Iranian provinces in the third quarter of the current fiscal year (Sept. 22-Dec. 20, 2020) while West…

The Statistical Center of Iran provides two figures for the youth unemployment rate: one concerning the population between 15 and 24 years and those between 18 and 35 years.   

The employment rate in the third quarter of the current fiscal year (Sept. 22-Dec. 20, 2020) was 37.5% (23.41 million), down 2.1% compared with the same quarter of last Iranian year. …

The population of the unemployed in Iran currently stands at 2.4 million, 40% of whom are university graduates, according to the director general of Employment and Policymaking Department of the…

Iran’s unemployment rate, the proportion of jobless population of ages 15 and above, stood at 9.4% in the third quarter of the current fiscal year (Sept. 22-Dec. 20, 2020), indicating a 1.2%…

The economically active population, including employed and unemployed people, reduced by 1.62 million in the second quarter of the current fiscal year (June 21-Sept. 21), indicating a 3.1%…

The official unemployment rate, according to the Statistical Center of Iran, stood at 9.8% in the first quarter of the current Iranian year (March 20-June 20), indicating a 1.1% decline compared…

The Statistical Center of Iran provides two figures for the youth unemployment rate: for the age-group of 15-24 years and those between 18 and 35 years.

The employment rate in Iran in the second quarter of the current fiscal year (June 21-Sept. 21) stood at 37.8% (23.54 million), down 2.4% compared with the same quarter of last Iranian year.

The Statistical Center of Iran has surveyed the unemployment rate across Iran's 31 provinces in the second quarter of the current fiscal year (June 21-Sept. 21). Khorasan Razavi Province filed…

A survey conducted by the Social Security Organization’s Research Institute of over 700,000 applicants of unemployment insurance benefits shows 61.9% of them were the head of households and 27.1…

Iran’s unemployment rate, the proportion of jobless population of ages 15 and above, stood at 9.5% in the second quarter of the current Iranian year (June 21-Sept. 21), indicating a 1% decline…

Fifty-nine percent of all workers who lost their jobs due to the outbreak of coronavirus were service providers, says Masoud Babaie, an official with the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and…

The Statistical Center of Iran provides two figures for the youth unemployment rate: the proportion of the population between 15 and 24 years and those between 18 and 35 years.

A small percentage of labor force in Iran manages to collect unemployment benefits in the event of losing their jobs.  According to a study on unemployment insurance in the year ending…

The unemployment rate for university graduates stood at 13.5% in the first quarter of the current Iranian year (March 20-June 20), registering a 3.3% year-on-year decrease.  Higher…