Iran Unemployment Rate Decreases by 28%
Iran’s labor ministry’s figures indicated that the number of jobless claims in the country has fallen by 28% since late 2019 after the closures of plants and businesses due to the coronavirus epidemic.
The statistics showed that a total of 162,491 people had been receiving unemployment benefits from Iran’s Social Security Organization (SSO) in June, down from more than 226,000 reported three years ago.
Head of Insured Affairs Department at the SSO Mehdi Shakouri said that jobless claims had fallen mainly because of a boom in business activity in the country that started earlier this year.
He added that jobless claims filed with the SSO had dropped to around 186,000 in March 2021, down from nearly 200,000 reported in March 2020.
Economic closures caused by the coronavirus epidemic in Iran in early 2020 had led to a major increase in the number of unemployed in the country.
The unemployment rate in Iran decreased to 9.2 percent in the second quarter of 2022 from 9.4 percent in the first quarter of 2022.
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