Financial Tribune - The services sector employed 50.3% of the Iranian employed population last year, whereas industrial and agricultural sectors provided 32% and 17.7% of jobs, respectively Irans unemployment rate stood at 10.7% in the last Iranian year (March 2019-20), indicating a 1.5% decline compared with the year before, the latest report by ...

Financial Tribune - Unemployment rate for university graduates stood at 15.6% in the fourth quarter of the current Iranian year (Dec. 22, 2019-March 19), posting a 2% decrease YOY. Higher education unemployment rate for men stood at 11.2% and that of women stuck around 24.7%, the Statistical Center of Iran reported. The share of higher education ...

Financial Tribune - About 600,000 of people have filed for unemployment because of the coronavirus pandemic over the past 20 days, says Hojjat Mirzaie, an official with the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare. These people were mostly employed in the services sector, he added. Ali Rabiei, the government spokesman, said the economy ...

Financial Tribune - South Khorasan Province filed the lowest unemployment rate of 6% among all Iranian provinces in the fourth quarter of last Iranian year (Dec. 22, 2019-March 19) while Kurdestan Province registered the highest unemployment rate of 20%. Tehran Province, wherein lies the capital city, registered an 8.8% unemployment rate, the Statistical ...

Financial Tribune - Irans unemployment rate, the proportion of jobless population of ages 15 and above, stood at 10.6% in the fourth quarter of the current Iranian year (Dec. 22, 2019-March 19), indicating a 1.7% decline compared with the same period of last year. These numbers were calculated between Feb. 1-14, before the outbreak of coronavirus,...

IRNA Head of Plan and Budget Organization of Iran Mohammad Baqer Nobakht on Tuesday briefed the governments efforts to rein in unemployment rate, saying the countrys unemployment rate stood at 10.6% last year. Nobakht made the remarks while speaking live on his personal Instagram page. He said that the governments measures to create jobs and ...

Financial Tribune - Unemployment rate for university graduates stood at 17.4% in the third quarter of the current Iranian year (Sept. 23-Dec. 21, 2019) to register a 1.2% decrease compared with the corresponding period of last year, the Statistical Center of Iran's latest report on Iran's labor market shows. Higher education unemployment rate for ...

Financial Tribune - South Khorasan Province registered the lowest unemployment rate of 5.4% among all Iranian provinces in the third quarter of the current Iranian year (Sept. 23-Dec. 21, 2019) while Kermanshah Province had the highest rate of 16.3%. Tehran Province, wherein lies the capital city, registered a 9.4% unemployment rate, the Statistical ...

Financial Tribune - The unemployment rate was 11.8% in urban areas (2.42 million people) and 6.6% in rural areas (466,012 people) Irans unemployment rate, the proportion of jobless population of ages 15 years and above, stood at 10.5% in the second quarter of the current Iranian year (June 22-Sept. 22), indicating a 1.8% decrease compared with the ...

Financial Tribune - The overall unemployment rate in Iran, the proportion of total jobless population of ages 10 years and above, stood at 10.8% in the first quarter of the current Iranian year (March 21-June 21), indicating a 1.3% decrease year-on-year, according to the latest report of the Statistical Center of Iran. Citing the SCI data, the Persian ...

Financial Tribune - Irans unemployment rate, the proportion of jobless population of ages 10 years and above, stood at 10.8% in the first quarter of the current Iranian year (March 21-June 21), indicating a 1.3% decrease compared with the same period of last year. A total of 2,956,687 Iranians were unemployed in Q1, the latest report by the Statistical ...

Tehran Times - According to the latest report of the Statistical Center of Iran (SCI), unemployment rate stood at 12 percent in the past Iranian calendar year 1397 which ended on March 20, 2019, IRIB reported on Sunday. As reported, the jobless rate shows 0.4 percent rise from the figure of the Iranian year 1396. The SCI report also put the unemployment ...

Financial Tribune - Men's unemployment rate stood at 10.1% while women's joblessness hovered around 18%, as over 2.19 million men and 980,578 million women of ages 10 and above were jobless in the third quarter Irans unemployment rate, the proportion of jobless population of ages 10 years and above, stood at 11.7% in the third quarter of the current ...

Financial Tribune- Irans 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% increase compared with Q3, the latest report by the Statistical Center of Iran showed. Youth unemployment rate, i.e. the proportion of ...

IFP- Mohammad Baqer Nobakht, the spokesman for the Iranian government, says the countrys unemployment rate has decreased and economic growth rate has increased during the past Iranian fiscal year. Nobakht, who is also the head of Planning and Budget Organization of Iran, noted that the unemployment rate has dropped from 12.40 percent to 11.7 percent....

August 22, The Iran Project - In a March 30 speech in Gilan province, President Hassan Rouhani confirmed that unemployment has been a heavy burden on his administration. Rouhanis government has been able to generate only a maximum of 700,000 jobs per year. Meanwhile, VP Jahangiri labeled the job crisis in the country as a super challengeon April 15....

Irans Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says 42% of Iranian university graduates are jobless. Speaking on the sidelines of a cultural ceremony in the northern city of Shahroud, Larijani described inflation and unemployment as two major problems facing Iranian people. He said unemployment rate among young graduates, which has been recently announced ...

Fouman, Gilan Prov, Jan 21, IRNA First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri said young graduates are the capacity of the country and Irans economy has the potential to create 800,000 to one million job opportunities annually. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of Foumanat MDF production line in this northern province, he said under the present condition ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEI Critical Threats Project Iran Analyst Mehrdad Moarefian with contributors Chris Rawlins and Diana Timmerman. Official Statements National Security and Foreign Policy Parliamentary (NSFP) Commission Chairman and MP Alaeddin Boroujerdi addressed ...

Irans National Census Centre has announced that unemployment among university and college graduates is on the rise. The Shargh daily reports that Adel Azar, the head of the National Census Centre, said the unemployment rate among people with a bachelors degree rose from 14.6 percent to 20.1 percent from 2005 to 2013. He reported that in recent ...