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| A police officer talks with a group of Iranian workers during their protest in Tehran August 14 / August 2012 |
Iran suffers from a severe crisis in unemployment for years, where the number of college graduates than there are nearly two million and 200 thousand this year, and who still can not find jobs, it is expected that this number will double by 2020.
According to the report, the high official unemployment rate proves the inability of successive Iranian governments in the face of the unemployment crisis, in spite of government promises to address this phenomenon through the launch of projects for the unemployed.
The report confirms that the unemployment rate started to increase since the Iranian President «Hassan Rowhani» governance, where the year 2010 saw the highest rates of unemployment stood at 13.5%, at a time when economic growth in the same year of 6.5%, the highest growth rate between 2005 and 2014.
The report pointed out that the Minister of Labour and Social Welfare had said on August 8 / August this that every 5 minutes to the Iranian increase the number of unemployed, explaining the need to provide 800 thousand jobs per year.
He also explained that his ministry insurance covers 10 million low-income and slum dwellers ,.
For his part, President of the Iranian Parliament Research Center «Hassan Rowhani» recommended not to launch and unrealistic promises.
According to official statistics cited by the report, the number of young workers fell to about 2.26 million at the end of 2013 compared to B4.49 in 2005, what shows that 2.23 million young Iranians have lost their jobs during the 8 years.
The report touched on the unemployment rate among Iranian women, which amounted to 18%, and 7.9% among men, while at the age of 15 to 24 years the unemployment rate among young people is about 22.9%.