The number of unemployed registered in the offices of the public employment services fell by 83,834 people in June, a 2.06% compared to may, with what the total volume of unemployed stood at 3,982,368 people, dropping from the four million for the first time since December 2009.
This decline is the third consecutive after may, when the unemployment fell by more than 76,000 people, and the best data that is recorded in a month of June since 1997. Last year, June left 55,250 unemployed less.
In the past 12 months, unemployment has increased by 417,479 unemployed, a 11.7 per cent, of which 195,121 are men, and 222,358 women, with increases of 10.9% and 12.4%, respectively.
The secretary-general of Employment, Maravillas Rojo, stressed in a statement that the fall in unemployment in June represents the largest decline monthly in the past five years, which, in his view, confirms that it is slowing job destruction and that progressively iran recorded monthly figures prior to the crisis.
Something more than two thirds of the decline in unemployment in June was due to the men and one, to women. In particular, in the sixth month of year, there were 24,943 stops less compared to may (-1.2%), compared to a drop in male unemployment of 58,891 men (-2.9%). By sectors, there were declines in almost all of them, except in the collective without previous employment, where increased by 915 persons (+0.2%) and in agriculture, which recorded an increase of 174 people (+0.1%).
The construction returned to throw a positive by reducing its unemployed for a fourth consecutive month, with 21,253 unemployed less (-2.8%). The greatest fall was, however, to services, where there were 48,268 unemployed less (-2%). The industry, for its part, recorded 15,402 unemployed less (-3%).