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Demographics of Iran. Population of Iranian provinces and counties in 2021. Iran 's population increased dramatically during the later half of the 20th century, reaching about 80 million by 2016. [2][3] As of July 2024, Iran's population is around 89.8 million. [4]
Turkic peoples constitute a substantial minority of about 15–24%, the largest group being the Azerbaijani. They are the second largest ethnicity in Iran, as well as the largest minority group. [3] Other Turkic groups include the Turkmen, Qashqai and Kazakhs peoples. Arabs account for about 2–3% of the Iranian population.
The Iranian diaspora, also known as Iranian expats, are Iranian citizens or people of Iranian descent living outside Iran. [ 3 ] In 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran published statistics, which showed that 4,037,258 Iranians are living abroad, an increase from previous years.
One of the major internal policy challenges during the centuries up until now for most or all Iranian governments has been to find the appropriate and balanced approach to the difficulties and opportunities caused by this diversity, particularly as this ethnic or sectarian divisions have often been readily utilized by foreign powers, notably during the Iran–Iraq War.
Presidential elections were held in Iran on 18 June 2021, the thirteenth since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979. Ebrahim Raisi, the then Chief Justice of Iran, was declared the winner in a highly controversial election. The election began with the mass disqualification of popular candidates by the Guardian Council, and broke ...
Iranians in the United Kingdom are referred to by hyphenated terms such as British-Iranians, British-Persians, Iranian-Britons, or Persian-Britons. [5] As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the British-Iranian population was approximately 114,432 people. The vast majority of British-Iranians arrived after the Islamic Revolution of 1979, with an ...
Population of Iranian provinces and counties in 2021 Iran's population grew rapidly from about 19 million in 1956 to about 85 million by February 2023. [ 448 ] However, Iran's fertility rate has dropped dramatically, from 6.5 children born per woman to about 1.7 two decades later, [ 449 ] [ 450 ] [ 451 ] leading to a population growth rate of ...
Population genomic PCA, showing the CIC (Central Iranian cluster) among other worldwide samples. Recent population genomic studies found that the genetic structure of Iranian peoples formed already about 5,000 years ago and show high continuity since then, suggesting that they were largely unaffected by migration events from outside groups.