Iran 2023 population is estimated at 89,172,767 people at mid year. Iran population is equivalent to 1.11% of the total world population. Iran ranks number 17 in the list of countries (and dependencies) by population.
The birth rate for Iran in 2023 was 16.347 births per 1000 people, a 3.26% decline from 2022. The birth rate for Iran in 2022 was 16.897 births per 1000 people, a 3.15% decline from 2021. The birth rate for Iran in 2021 was 17.447 births per 1000 people, a 3.06% decline from 2020.
As of 2022, Iran's population is around 86.5 million. In recent years, however, Iran's birth rate has dropped significantly. Studies project that Iran's rate of population growth will continue to slow until it stabilises above 100 million by 2050.
This statistic shows the age structure of Iran inhabitants from 2012 to 2022. In 2022, about 23.57 percent of inhabitants were aged 0 to 14 years, while approximately 68.81 percent were aged 15 to 64, and 7.62 percent of Iran inhabitants were aged 65 or older.
The current population of Saudi Arabia in 2024 is 37,473,929, a 1.43% increase from 2023. The population of Saudi Arabia in 2023 was 36,947,025, a 1.48% increase from 2022. The population of Saudi Arabia in 2022 was 36,408,820, a 1.28% increase from 2021.
Saudi Arabia is the fifth most powerful Islamic country in the world and is home to some of the holiest Islamic sites, in Mecca and Medina. 31.2 million Muslims live in the country. It ranks 15th on our list of countries with the highest Muslim population.
Although Persian (Farsi) is the predominant and official language of Iran, a number of languages and dialects from three language families—Indo-European, Altaic, and Afro-Asiatic—are spoken. Roughly three-fourths of Iranians speak one of the Indo-European languages.
Almost all Iranians as Muslim, with 90–95% thought to associate themselves with the official state religion – Shia Islam – and about 5–10% with the Sunni and Sufi branches of Islam. 99.8% of Iranians identifying as Muslim.
Iran's military forces are made up of approximately 587,000 active-duty personnel plus 200,000 reserve and trained personnel that can be mobilized when needed, bringing the country's military manpower to about 787,000 total personnel. These numbers do not include Law Enforcement Command or Basij.
According to the Islamic Republic's 2016 census almost all of Iran's 89 million as of 2023 population are Muslims with 99% reporting that they are Muslim.
It has large reserves of fossil fuels—including the second largest natural gas supply and the third-largest proven oil reserves. The country's rich cultural legacy is reflected in part by its 27 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, which ranks 10th worldwide. Iran places 5th globally in terms of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Iran has a long history of scholarship that has created a rich culture of art, literature, poetry, music, cuisine, and architecture. Ancient Iranian thinkers wrote influential texts on philosophy and medicine, and it was an Iranian mathematician who invented algebra.
The steady decline in the fertility rate has been a cause of concern, plummeting from 6.5 children per woman in the 1980s to 1.5 now, with new births continuously shrinking on an annual basis. The population growth rate has also declined from 3.9% in 1986 to less than 1% in 2021.
Unemployment rate is one of the most important economic causes of fertility reduction. Results of other studies confirmed this fact. Seemingly, it was shown in the studies of Kreyenfeld (16), Adsera (26), Adsera and Menendez (13) and Jafari et al. (21) that unemployment significantly delays fertility.
The Islamization of Iran was the spread of Islam in formerly Sassanid Iran as a result of the Muslim conquest of the empire in 633–654. It was a long process by which Islam, though initially rejected, eventually spread among the population on the Iranian Plateau.
Turkish Muslims are largely Sunni, and follow the Hanafi school of legal jurisprudence. Alevi Muslims make up anywhere between 15-20%, and smaller Ja'afari Shi'a Muslim communities are present.
Sunni and Shi'i are the two largest branches of Islam, with the overwhelming majority of Iranians practicing Shi'i Islam. About 90 percent of Iranians practice Shi'ism, the official religion of Iran. [i] By contrast, most Arab states in the Middle East are predominantly Sunni.
As a result, Iranians are not familiar with Hindi, though they can recognize some words or even sometimes they can sign some songs from the movies. But Persian language itself has an Indian accent! It is actually a fictional accent, modeled after Hindi, and because of this nobody speak this accent in everyday life.
Most people speak English in Iran. After that, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Arabic are the main languages chosen by people as a third or fourth language. But the number of people who speak these languages isn't considerable. The only language among these that all Iranians are familiar with is Arabic.
The country with the single largest population of Muslims is Indonesia in Southeast Asia, which on its own hosts 13% of the world's Muslims. Together, the Muslims in the countries of Southeast Asia constitute the world's third-largest population of Muslims.
Muslims are a minority group in China, representing 1 to 1.5 percent of the total population (20 million people) according to a book. Though Hui Muslims are the most numerous group, the greatest concentration of Muslims are in Xinjiang, which contains a significant Uyghur population.
