25% of young people and 42% of women unemployed in Iran

An Iranian demographer said that according to statistics rounded up from 2006 to 2016, around 25% of the youth in Iran were unemployed, the state-run ISNA news agency reported on September 26, 2017.
“The numbers reach 42% when it comes to women,” Mohammad Jalal Abbasi Shawazi said.
He criticized the low level of women’s economic participation saying that only about 15 percent of women participated in economic activities.
“The economic participation of men is about 64 percent,” he said.
“Therefore, one of the important issues in the society that affects the development of the country is the low utilization of the potential of women’s productivity in the country.”