Ilam Province registered the lowest unemployment rate of 6.8% among all Iranian provinces in the fourth quarter of the last Iranian year (Dec. 22, 2022-March 20) while Kurdestan registered the highest rate of 20.5%.
Iran’s overall unemployment rate, the proportion of the jobless population of ages 15 and above, stood at 9.7% in Q4, indicating a 0.3% year-on-year increase, according to a new report by the Statistical Center of Iran.
A total of 2.52 million Iranians were unemployed in Q4.
Men’s unemployment stood at 8.5% while the rate for women hovered around 15.7%, such that over 1.85 million men and 670,349 women of ages 15 and above were jobless in Q4.