The main reason for the decline in the unemployment rate in Iran is the decrease in demand for work, not government job creation.

Economic experts, referring to the report of the Statistical Center of Iran on the unprecedented decrease in the unemployment rate in the country, say that the center has hidden the main reason in its statistics, namely the decrease in the participation rate in the market.

The state-run IRNA news agency recently announced, citing the Statistical Center of Iran, that the unemployment rate in Iran decreased by half a percentage point last fall to 9.8 percent.
The Iranian Statistical Center also put the unemployment rate in the spring of 1402 at around 8.8 percent, announcing that only 3 out of every 10 Iranians had jobs.

But Farshad Momeni, an economic expert, said in an interview with Iranian domestic media: "Less than 40 percent of Iranian households earn income through productive and productive means, and the rest are mainly engaged in unstable, low-quality, and informal jobs."
Stating that the greatest decline in employment demand was in the agricultural sector, the university professor added: "We have experienced the most unprecedented deindustrialization in our country in the past two decades."

He criticized the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Trade, saying: "With the opening up of oil exchanges and the increase in the country's foreign exchange earnings, we are witnessing more efforts by the Ministry of Industry to "increase imports," while the ministry's duty is to support industry and production and create jobs in the country, not to enrich rentier importers."

Last fall, Labor Minister Ebrahim Raisi said: "Iran has more than 20 million unemployed or underemployed people."
In an interview with the Iranian Broadcasting Corporation, Abdul-Maliki stated that there were 10 million low-income workers and 5 million informal workers.

Source: Voice of America