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Iran: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1986–2025 · 37 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
8.00%percent
Change on 2024
+0.4 pointsfrom 7.55%
Average, 2016–2025
9.87%10 years
Record high and low
16.6% (2001)low 7.55% (2024)

Unemployment rate

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6%8%10%12%14%16%18%19902000201020202030IranIran
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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20319.00Forecast
20309.00Forecast
20299.00Forecast
20289.00Forecast
20279.00Forecast
20269.20Forecast
20258.00
20247.55
20238.07
20229.00
20219.18
20209.60
201910.7
201812.1
201712.1
201612.4

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1986–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2025
  • International Labour Organization2002–2022
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Iran documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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