Unemployment Rate in Iran

Iran’s unemployment rate in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year (Dec. 22, 2017-March 20) stood at 12.1%, registering a 0.4% drop compared with the same period of the year before and a 0.2…

Iran’s unemployment rate in the third quarter of the current fiscal year (Sept. 23-Dec. 21, 2017) stood at 11.9%, registering a 0.4% drop compared with the same period of last year and a 0.2%…

President Hassan Rouhani pledged efforts to sustain the economic growth that began after he took office in 2013.

The jobless rate is forecast by the Plan and Budget Organization of Iran to stand at 12.1% and economic growth to reach 5% in the current fiscal year (March 2017-18).

The duration of employment in Iran stood at an average of 12.2 years (11 years for women and 12.5 years for men), while 68.7% stayed in their main jobs for under 15 years in the fiscal 2016-17,…

Advocates of higher education have long argued its role in helping job-seekers earn more money and find a job.

No one is jobless in Kish Free Trade Zone, the unemployment rate in Qeshm FTZ (about 6%) is half the country’s average and the number of jobless is very low in Aras FTZ, the secretary of High…

Inflation and unemployment are economic indices that directly affect people’s well-being.

Inflation erodes purchasing power and unemployment leads to poverty. Therefore, the misery index…

Iranian women’s participation rate in labor force is one of the lowest compared to many other countries and that is to blame for Iran’s overall low participation rates in the world.

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More than 20.65 million people were employed in Iran during the last Iranian year (March 2016-17), 83.8% of whom were men and 16.2% were women, the Statistical Center of Iran announced. …

A total of 26% of Iranian households (4.8 million) in urban areas had no employed member in the last fiscal year (ended March 20, 2017), according to data released by the Central Bank of Iran.…

Nine provinces, namely Semnan (7.1), Markazi (8.2%), Gilan (9.2%), East Azarbaijan and Mazandaran (9.5%), Hamedan and Zanjan (9.7%), Ardabil and North Khorasan (9.9%) registered single-digit…

An average of 485,000 jobs were created every year during President Hassan Rouhani’s first term (Aug. 2013-17), the head of the Statistical Center of Iran said. Omid Ali Parsa added that the…

With 7.3%, Markazi Province had the lowest unemployment rate in Iran during the first half of the current Iranian year (March 2017-18), an official with the central province’s Governor-General’s…

Iran’s unemployment rate in the second quarter of the current fiscal year (June 22-Sept. 22) stood at 11.7%, registering a 1% drop compared with the same period of last year and a 0.9% decrease…

Iran ranked 104th among 130 countries and scored 54.97 out of 100 in World Economic Forum’s Global Human Capital Index for 2017.

Unemployment among Iranian women has increased in the past decade, from 4% in 1996 to 20% in 2016.  Women’s joblessness has jumped despite their  higher education levels. Statistics…

The unemployment of three groups, namely young people, women and the educated, will put considerable pressure on Iran’s labor market in the coming years.

This was stated by Special…

As 16 of the ministerial nominees proposed by President Hassan Rouhani got the parliamentary vote of confidence on Sunday, the president and his Cabinet know exactly what one of their biggest…

A study conducted for clarifying the connection between pay and higher education in Iran reveals that surprisingly people with university degrees have lower chances of landing jobs compared with…

Reducing unemployment rate and creating jobs for the disabled, addressing malnutrition and providing universal healthcare were some of the promises made by Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and…

A report by the Statistical Center of Iran (SCI) shows women’s participation in the economy increased from 12.4% in 2013 to 16.4% in the first quarter of the current fiscal that started in March…

Iran’s unemployment rate in the first quarter of the current fiscal year (March 21-June 21) stood at 12.6%, registering a 0.4% rise compared with last year's corresponding period and a 0.1%…

Job creation is not within the direct purview of the government, yet it was one of the main topics in the presidential election debates last month.

Both analysts and senior government…

Iran’s misery index has had a 40% improvement since President Hassan Rouhani took office in Aug. 2013, as it went down from 48.8 in 2013 to 29.3 in 2016, according to data released by Cato…