{"id":5217,"date":"2008-05-12T15:36:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T14:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/issues\/economy\/5217-iran-more-than-one-quarter-of-iranian-youths-are-jobless-says-official"},"modified":"2008-05-12T15:36:01","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T14:36:01","slug":"iran-more-than-one-quarter-of-iranian-youths-are-jobless-says-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/economy\/iran-more-than-one-quarter-of-iranian-youths-are-jobless-says-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: More than one quarter of Iranian youths are jobless, Says official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"100\"  src=\"\/images\/stories\/\/2008\/workers\/unemployment-iran.jpg\" width=\"150\" align=\"right\"  border=\"0\" \/>NCRI \u00e2\u0080\u0094&nbsp; A top statistics official of the Iranian regime said that one out of four young Iranians aged between 15 and 24 were unemployed, the state-run Mehr news agency reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Based on last years&#8217; statistics, 25.6 percent of youths in Iran, aged 15 to 24 are unemployed,\u00e2\u0080\u009d Mohammad Madad, head of Iranian regime&#8217;s Statistics Centre was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Madad said the youth unemployment figure is 28.9 percent in urban areas and 19.4 percent in rural areas. <\/p>\n<p>Half of Iran&#8217;s 70 million population is under 30 and the legal working age is 15.<\/p>\n<p>According to independent experts the unemployment figure is much higher than officially announced figures. \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe economically active population in Iran is estimated to be about 25 million. 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