The Iranian regime’s Eghtesad News website reported that data from the Statistical Center of Iran shows that the youth unemployment rate in the age group of 15 to 24 is higher than the overall national unemployment rate, with one of the reasons being cited as the limitation in coordinating work hours and education.
Official statistics indicate that the highest level of youth unemployment, aged 15 to 24, was recorded in the winter of 2010.
The state-run Ecoiran website also wrote in a report that in the spring of 2005, the unemployment rate for youth aged 15 to 24 was 24%, and in the winter of 2010, the unemployment rate for youth in this age group exceeded 31%, which was the highest unemployment rate recorded in the past 19 years.
Youth unemployment reached 30% in 2016, with one of the reasons being the increased inclination of individuals to enter the job market and the lack of capacity to absorb all the unemployed in the job market.
Ecoiran also wrote in October 2023, based on published official statistics, that the active population in the summer of 2023 reached nearly 26.8 million, and emphasized that the assessments indicate that in the summer of 2023, 2.115 million of these individuals failed to find a job and are considered unemployed.
This economic website, referring to available statistics, wrote that in the summer of 2023, there were 1.643 million unemployed individuals aged 18 to 35 in the job market in Iran.
At the same time, the regime’s Etemad daily also wrote in a look at these statistics that since the coronavirus pandemic, more than 3 million individuals have been added to the “working age population” in Iran, but jobs have not been created to the same extent, and a large portion of the new job seekers remain unemployed.
Media reports in February 2024 indicate that in the fall of 2023, the unemployment rate for women aged 15 to 24 in 26 provinces was above 20%. Ecoiran also addressed this issue and wrote that this rate is higher than this rate for young men in 14 provinces. Statistics published by the Statistical Center show that the unemployment rate for young men in the fall of last year was 18.5%, and this rate for women in Iran as a whole was 28.9%.
Some experts and analysts point out that despite the numerous promises by senior government officials regarding the creation of “millions of jobs,” official statistics indicate the prevalence of youth unemployment in Iran.
Based on this, they refer to official statistics and declare that “42.8% “of the total unemployed population in the country have higher education degrees and a significant portion of them are “educated rural women.”
The regime’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, has been promising the creation of “one million jobs annually” since June 2021, a slogan that has also been repeated by Sowlat Mortazavi, his labor minister, and has faced numerous reactions. Experts have repeatedly emphasized that governments in the Iranian regime manipulate indicators or shift time frames, effectively engaging in statistical manipulation.
