Nationality:
noun: Iranian(s)
adjective:
Iranian
Ethnic groups:
Persian 61%, Azeri 16%, Kurd 10%, Lur 6%, Baloch 2%, Arab 2%, Turkmen and Turkic tribes 2%, other 1%
Languages:
Persian (official) 53%, Azeri Turkic and Turkic dialects 18%, Kurdish 10%, Gilaki and Mazandarani 7%, Luri 6%, Balochi 2%, Arabic 2%, other 2%
Religions:
Muslim (official) 99.4% (Shia 90-95%, Sunni 5-10%), other (includes Zoroastrian, Jewish, and Christian) 0.3%, unspecified 0.4% (2011 est.)
Population: Age structure:
Dependency ratios:
Median age:
Population growth rate: Birth rate: Death rate: Net migration rate: Urbanization:
Major urban areas - population: Sex ratio:
Maternal mortality rate: Infant mortality rate:
Life expectancy at birth:
Total fertility rate: Contraceptive prevalence rate: Health expenditures: Physicians density: Hospital bed density: Drinking water source:
Sanitation facility access:
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: HIV/AIDS - deaths: Major infectious diseases:
Obesity - adult prevalence rate: Children under the age of 5 years underweight: Education expenditures: Literacy:
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24
NOTE: 1) The information regarding Iran on this page is re-published from the 2015 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Iran PEOPLE 2015 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Iran PEOPLE 2015 should be addressed to the CIA.
80,840,713 (July 2014 est.)
country comparison to the world: 19
[see also: Population country ranks ]
0-14 years:
23.7% (male 9,834,866/female 9,350,017)
15-24 years:
18.7% (male 7,757,256/female 7,341,309)
25-54 years:
46.1% (male 18,955,874/female 18,289,849)
55-64 years:
6.3% (male 2,519,630/female 2,603,458)
65 years and over:
5.1% (male 1,941,692/female 2,246,762) (2014 est.)
population pyramid: 
total dependency ratio:
41.5 %
youth dependency ratio:
33.9 %
elderly dependency ratio:
7.6 %
potential support ratio:
13.1 (2014 est.)
total:
28.3 years
male:
28 years
female:
28.6 years (2014 est.)
1.22% (2014 est.)
country comparison to the world: 97
[see also: Population growth rate country ranks ]
18.23 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)
country comparison to the world: 105
[see also: Birth rate country ranks ]
5.94 deaths/1,000 population (2014 est.)
country comparison to the world: 168
[see also: Death rate country ranks ]
-0.08 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2014 est.)
country comparison to the world: 115
[see also: Net migration rate country ranks ]
urban population:
69.1% of total population (2011)
rate of urbanization:
1.25% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
TEHRAN (capital) 7.304 million; Mashhad 2.713 million; Esfahan 1.781 million; Karaj 1.635 million; Tabriz 1.509 million; Shiraz 1.321 million (2011)
at birth:
1.05 male(s)/female
0-14 years:
1.05 male(s)/female
15-24 years:
1.06 male(s)/female
25-54 years:
1.04 male(s)/female
55-64 years:
1.03 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.89 male(s)/female
total population:
1.03 male(s)/female (2014 est.)
21 deaths/100,000 live births (2010)
country comparison to the world: 137
[see also: Maternal mortality rate country ranks ]
total:
39 deaths/1,000 live births
country comparison to the world: 55
male:
39.53 deaths/1,000 live births
female:
38.45 deaths/1,000 live births (2014 est.)
total population:
70.89 years
country comparison to the world: 148
male:
69.32 years
female:
72.53 years (2014 est.)
1.85 children born/woman (2014 est.)
country comparison to the world: 146
[see also: Total fertility rate country ranks ]
73.3% (2002)
[see also: Contraceptive prevalence rate country ranks ]
6% of GDP (2011)
country comparison to the world: 110
[see also: Health expenditures country ranks ]
0.89 physicians/1,000 population (2005)
[see also: Physicians density country ranks ]
1.7 beds/1,000 population (2009)
[see also: Hospital bed density country ranks ]
improved:
unimproved:
improved:
unimproved:
0.2% (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 102
[see also: HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate country ranks ]
70,900 (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 54
[see also: HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS country ranks ]
4,600 (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 43
[see also: HIV/AIDS - deaths country ranks ]
degree of risk:
intermediate
food or waterborne diseases:
bacterial diarrhea
vectorborne diseases:
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
note:
highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been identified in this country; it poses a negligible risk with extremely rare cases possible among US citizens who have close contact with birds
(2013)
19.4% (2008)
country comparison to the world: 99
[see also: Obesity - adult prevalence rate country ranks ]
4.6% (2004)
country comparison to the world: 92
[see also: Children under the age of 5 years underweight country ranks ]
3.7% of GDP (2012)
country comparison to the world: 119
[see also: Education expenditures - percent of GDP country ranks ]
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
85%
male:
89.3%
female:
80.7% (2008 est.)
total:
15 years
male:
15 years
female:
15 years (2012)
total:
23%
country comparison to the world: 48
male:
20.2%
female:
33.9% (2008)
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may habe the following issues:
a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order
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