TEHRAN - The latest figures by the Statistical Center of Iran (SCI) puts the country’s jobless rate at 7.7 percent in the first three months of the current calendar year to late June.

The data showed that 7.7 percent of the Iranian people aged 15 or older were jobless which is 0.5 percent lower than that of last year’s corresponding period.

The SCI data also suggests that 41.2 percent of the country’s above-15 population were economically active which refers to the population either employed or seeking a job.

Iran’s economic participation rate has remained unchanged compared to figures from the same period of last year, according to the report.

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