Tehran, IRNA – According to a new report by the Statistical Center of Iran (SCI), the unemployment rate in the country fell 1% to 8.2% year on year in the first quarter of the current Iranian year (March 21-June 21).

The latest SCI report which was published on Saturday showed that Iran's jobless rate had dropped by one percentage point compared to March-June 2022.

The number of new jobs created since first quarter of the last calendar year were 728,000.

The report indicated that some 24,306,000 people from the active population of 15-year-old and above in Iran were employed in June this year. 

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