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Actual Number of Unemployed in Iran Twice as the Official Statistics

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NCRI Staff

NCRI – The government of Hassan Rouhani has announced that the unemployment rate in Iran was 11 percent, which is not accepted by public opinion, and other government agencies insist that the real unemployment rate in Iran is twice that figure.

According to the state-run Mashreq news agency on 20 January 2018, the statistics announced by the government in recent years on job creation and unemployment rates have always been mistrusted by the people.

For example, while the government has announced that it has created nearly 800,000 jobs in the last year, the public is asking where this 800,000 people are hired and working? Everyone looks at the unemployed people around themselves, they find that they are still unemployed, and it’s unclear where the country’s 800,000 employees are employed as announced by the government’s statistics.

According to the reports by the statistics centre, the number of unemployed in the country is about 3 million people. However, most experts say that the actual number of unemployment is twice this figure.

In the same vein, studies of the regime’s parliamentary research center also show that the real number of unemployed is twice as high as the number announced by the government.

Estimates suggest that the hidden unemployment rate for the country as a whole was 22.5 percent in 2016, about 11 percent higher than the official unemployment rate, according to the Parliament’s Research Center. This rate for youth is 36.4 percent.

These statistics show that the real number of unemployed in 2016 were 5 million and 883 thousand people. According to this report, the real unemployment rate (hidden unemployment) in almost all provinces in Iran was twice as high as the official statistics.

Ebrahim Razaghi, an economic expert of Iranian regime, said: “When 22 million of the population of 66 million people over the age of 10 are employed, it means 44 million are unemployed, whether they want to work or do not want to work.”

According to the state-run Afkar News site, Razaghi said: “The current state of the country’s unemployed is catastrophic. This situation has gradually begun since 1989 after the implementation of capitalist politics. In these 30 years, about 1,500 billion dollars of goods and services came into the country, and if we wanted to create a job according to global standards of 10-20 thousand dollars per job, today we would have created between 75 million and 150 million jobs, but only 11 million jobs were created!”

According to him, the winner of Iran’s economy is not production, but the brokerage, import and hoarding, because no other activity is so profitable, and we sell oil to import goods, and the profit of the aristocracy, a class that has a cheap currency too, is in the very same thing!

Referring to the 5 million retirees in Iran, the regime’s expert says there are between one to two unemployed young people in the family and they are struggling with poverty.

Regarding the government statistics, Razaghi said: “These people do not believe in the government’s statistics at all, and it seems that only the government cites it!”