unemployment rate

Iran posts lowest annual jobless rate in decades

A senior Iranian official has put the country’s jobless rate in the past annual year to March 19 at 8.1% which he said is the lowest in decades.

Macro Economy

Iran’s Q4 jobless rate falls to 8.6%

A recent report by the Statistical Center of Iran (SCI) has put the country’s jobless rate in the fourth quarter of the calendar year to late March at 8.6%.

Macro Economy

Iran’s Q1 unemployment rate at 8.2%

According to a new report by the Statistical Center of Iran (SCI), Iran’s unemployment rate, the proportion of the jobless population of ages 15 and above, stood at 8.2% in the first quarter of the current Iranian year (March 21-June 21).

Macro Economy

Iran’s Q4 underemployment at 9.5%

Underemployment, the condition in which people in a labor force are working for less than 44 hours per week, stood at 9.5% in the fourth quarter of the previous Iranian year (Dec. 22, 2022-March 20), down 1.2% year-on-year and was higher for men and those living in rural areas, according to the Statistical Center of Iran.

Macro Economy

Iran’s Q4 jobless rate at 9.7%

Figures by the Iranian government’s statistics agency show the country’s jobless rate rose 0.3% in the quarter to March 20 compared to the same period last year to reach 9.7%.

Macro Economy

Iran’s jobless rate down 0.7% y/y in December quarter

Iran’s unemployment rate declined 0.7% in the quarter to late December last year compared to same quarter in 2021, according to figures by the Statistical Center of Iran (SCI).

Society Economy

Iran’s unemployment rate remains single-digit in Q1

Iran’s unemployment rate, the proportion of the jobless population of ages 15 and above, stood at 9.2% in the first quarter of the current Iranian year (March 21-June 21), indicating a 0.4% year-on-year increase.

Macro Economy

Iran jobless rate down slightly to 9.2% in fiscal 2021-22

Figures by the Statistical Center of Iran (SCI) show that the country’s unemployment rate dropped slightly in the year to March 20.

Macro Economy

IMF: Iran’s unemployment rate to exceed 10% in 2022-23

The International Monetary Fund expects the unemployment rate in Iran to exceed 10% in 2022 and the following year.

Macro Economy

Iran’s unemployment hits lowest rate in 25 years

According to the Statistical Center of Iran (SCI), the unemployment rate for people aged 15 and above fell to 8.9 percent this fall (September 23-December 21, 2021), recording the lowest rate in 25 years.

Macro Economy