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More than forty percent of the unemployed in Iran are university graduates, says a representative of the government’s Planning and Management Organization (PMO).

“42 percent of unemployed people in Iran have a university degree, and huge sums of money have been spent on their education,” said PMO Deputy for Social Development Sa’eed Namaki, adding that unemployment among university graduates leads many of them to leave the country in search of opportunities.

“We are facing a grave problem, and we have to address it fundamentally to stop elite Iranians from leaving the country,” said Namaki.

Out of 3.2 million jobless people between 2016-17 in Iran, more than 1.3 million, or 42 percent, held university degrees, according to a recent report presented at the Second Conference on Iranian Economy in Tehran in mid-December.

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