Unemployment Rate in Iran

Iran has registered a huge increase in its current account surplus from 2.7% of GDP in 2015 to 6.5% of GDP in 2017, the World Bank has said.

Iran’s unemployment rate in the current fiscal year (March 2016-17) stood at 12.4%, registering a 1.4% rise compared with the last year, the latest report by the Statistical Center of Iran said…

The findings of the recent National Population and Housing Census show Iran's population is over 79.92 million, which is about 4.77 million more compared to the previous figure registered by the…

Water crisis, environmental woes, crumbling pension funds, banking troubles, budget deficit and unemployment are six major challenges of Iran’s economy, the senior economic advisor to President…

Seven-hundred new jobs will be created in the next Iranian year (March 2017-18), says Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare Ali Rabiei. 

Last April President Hassan Rouhani said his government would strive to reduce the galloping inflation rate to single digits. That promise was delivered in June. Next in line was joblessness and…

On the basis of statistics released by domestic sources and international organizations, Iran’s economy has performed well during the first half of the current Iranian year (1395), spanning from…

President Hassan Rouhani is “very optimistic” about the future of Iran's economy, backing up his optimism by citing a set of statistics in a televised interview on Sunday evening.

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The government of President Hassan Rouhani is among the world’s top five in generating an annual average of 704,000 jobs, a senior presidential advisor said.

“But this extraordinary…

The number of people looking for jobs has risen by 20% over the seven months of the current fiscal year (started March 20), an official with the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social…

Seven provinces, namely Markazi Province (6.7%), West Azarbaijan (7.5%), Hamedan (8%), Semnan (8.1%), Zanjan (8.2%), North Khorasan (9.7%) and Gilan (9.9%), registered single-digit unemployment…

According to the Statistical Center of Iran, during the last Iranian year (ended on March 19), nearly 40 million Iranians in the working age (defined as 10 years and older) were not economically…

The services sector employed 49.4% of the Iranian population, whereas industrial and agricultural sectors provided 31.4% and 19.1% of the population with jobs respectively.

This was stated…

A large segment of Iran’s workforce is jobless.

A new study shows long-term unemployment at alarming levels, especially among college graduates and women. Although Iran’s economy is…

According to the latest figures released by the Statistical Center of Iran, the unemployment rate in the first quarter of the current Iranian year (started March 20) showed a 1.4% increase…

In June this year, half a million students graduated from pre-university (12th grade) courses and 767,000 (including graduates from previous years) took the University Entrance Exam (Konkur),…

Up to 7 million people are unemployed in Iran of which four million lack the skills and training to be employed in any profession, according to deputy minister of cooperatives, labor and social…

The government has postponed the nationwide administrative service examination until such time the gender bias in employment quotas are removed and all applicants get jobs solely on the basis of…

Iran’s employment market is gradually distancing itself from patriarchy, says deputy minister of cooperatives, labor and social affairs, Isa Mansouri, citing the decrease in women’s unemployment…

Net jobs created—generated employments minus the ones lost—reached 500,000 in the last Iranian year (March 2015-16), according to the Statistical Center of Iran, a deputy minister of cooperatives…

The rise in unemployment rate is a predicament economies face from time to time. Governments strive to tackle the issue, since joblessness is a source of many other economic and social problems…

According to the latest figures released by the Statistical Center of Iran, the unemployment rate in the third quarter of the current Iranian year (September 23-December 21) stood at 10.7%.

The rate of urbanization in Iran has surpassed 70% since 2014 when it was around 69%, the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development reported. That is while the global average is around 60%.

The population of economically active people, i.e. those who are either employed or actively seeking work, rose to 25.139 million in the second quarter of the current Iranian year (June 22-…

According to the latest figures released by the Statistical Center of Iran, the unemployment rate in the second quarter of the current Iranian year (June 22-September 22) stood at 10.9%. …