Iran's Statistical Center claims: Unemployment rate reached 8.8 percent in spring

The Statistical Center of Iran has published a report claiming that the country's unemployment rate decreased by about 1 percent this spring compared to last spring, reaching 8.8 percent.

The Statistical Center of Iran reported last July that, despite the fact that from the spring of 2019 to the same season of 2020, approximately 1.5 million jobs were lost in the country, the unemployment rate decreased by 1.1 percent to 9.8 percent.

Last year, the Parliamentary Research Center rejected the Statistics Center's report, saying that the unemployment rate for spring 2019, announced by the government at 9.8 percent, was not real, and that the actual unemployment rate was 24 percent, which is 2.5 times the figure announced by the government.

In the equations for calculating the unemployment rate, unemployed people who are not looking for work are not included, and for this reason, the Parliamentary Research Center said that a large number of those who were looking for work have given up looking for work due to their failure to find a job, and if we include these people in the statistics, the real unemployment rate is 24 percent.

Recently, the International Monetary Fund also estimated Iran's unemployment rate at 23%.

The Statistical Center of Iran recently blocked access to its data and statistics for internet users outside the country, but details published by ISNA News Agency from the new report by the Statistical Center show that this spring, more than 499,000 people were added to the economically active population (employed and looking for work) and 713,000 people were added to the employed population.

The report does not explain how the growth of employed people has been so much higher than the growth of active people (employed and looking for work).

Source: Radio Farda