Iran-Economic and political outline

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Published: 06 Oct 2008 17:51:21 PST

Economic indicators

GDP Indicators	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
GDP (billions USD)	161.261	188.479	222.387	278.138	324.632
GDP (constant prices, annual % change)	5.1	4.4	4.9	6	6
GDP per capita (USD)	2359.099	2747.513	3187.603	3920.074	4498.874
General government balance (in % of GDP)
Inflation rate (%)	15.2	12.1	13.6	19	17.7
Unemployment rate (% of the labor force)	12.8	12.8
Current Account (billions USD)	12.8	12.8
Current Account (in % of GDP)	1.441	16.637	19.407	21.017	21.342

Source: IMF - World Economic Outlook Database

Note: (e) Estimated data

Breakdown of economic activity by sector	Agriculture	Industry	Services
Value added (annual % change)	2.171957	6.50501	4.420673
Value added (in % of GDP)		42.74	46.04
Employment by sector(in % of total employment)	23%	30.7%	44.3%

Source: - last available data.

Foreign trade indicators	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Imports of goods (millions USD)
Exports of goods (millions USD)
Imports of services (millions USD)
Exports of services (millions USD)
Imports of goods and services (annual % change)	23.25667	23.86053	13.89829	-13.1665	13.71135
Exports of goods and services (annual % change)	8.330282	11.17187	-0.8492495	-13.1665	0.7984807
Trade Balance (millions USD)
Current Account (millions USD)
Foreign trade (in % of GDP)	49.26598	52.93763	54.97549	68.95193	52.93763
Imports of goods and services (in % of GDP)	22.72803	25.70372	25.92822	30.15611
Exports of goods and services (in % of GDP)	26.53795	27.23392	29.04728	38.79582

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Economic Organizations: http://www.iranbourse.com/Default.aspx?alias=www.iranbourse.com/EN">Teheran Stock Exchange
Ministries: Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance
Online newspapers: Iran Daily
Teheran Daily Times NewsPaper
Iran NewsPaper (en arabe)
Search Engines: Iran Index
Iran Mania
Search Iran
Iran Internet Pages
Economic portals: Pars Times

Executive Power
Legislative Power
Main political parties: Political pressure groups conduct most of Iran's political activities. It is quite difficult to get a clear view on Iranian political parties; however the major Political Parties are as follows:
- Islamic Society of Engineers supports acquiring scientific & technical knowledge by Iran, opposes Western culture & values, supports Islamic values;
- Executives of Construction Party - supporters of ex-President Rafsanjani and his policies;
- Islamic Iran Participation Front a reformist political party, supports democracy;
- Militant Clergy Association moderate conservative clerical party.
Current political leaders: Supreme Leader: Ayatollah Ali Hoseini-KHAMENEI (since June 1989) non-partisan
President: Mahmud AHMADI-NEJAD (since August 2005) Islamic Society of Engineers
Next election dates: Presidential: Year 2009
Islamic Consultative Assembly: 2012