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Society profile

Iran, Islamic Rep.

Iran, Islamic Rep.: 56 indicators from open sources, newest value for each.

Demography

Population, total 92.4 MWorld Bank2025 Population aged 0-14 22.0%World Bank2025 Population aged 15-64 69.4%World Bank2025 Population aged 65+ 8.6%World Bank2025 Female share of population 49.2%World Bank2025 Urban population 77.4%World Bank2025 Fertility rate 1.7World Bank2024 Adolescent fertility rate 25.8World Bank2024 Life expectancy at birth 77.9yearsWorld Bank2024 Infant mortality 10.3‰World Bank2024 Net migration 116 786World Bank2025

Education

Adult literacy rate 88.9%World Bank2023 Secondary school enrolment 85.1%World Bank2023 Tertiary enrolment 58.7%World Bank2022 Education spending 2.8%World Bank2023

Income

GDP per capita, PPP $19 699$World Bank2025 GNI per capita, PPP $19 660$World Bank2025 Gini index 35.9World Bank2023 Poverty headcount at $2.15/day 2.5%World Bank2023 Income share held by richest 10% 28.2%World Bank2023

Health

Suicide rate 4.1per 100kWorld Bank2021 Health spending 6.0%World Bank2023

Connectivity

Individuals using the internet 85.3%World Bank2024 Mobile subscriptions 174.1per 100World Bank2024 Access to electricity 100.0%World Bank2024

Environment

CO2 emissions per capita 9.1tWorld Bank2024

Religiosity

Religion is very important in life survey70.6%World Values Survey2020

Religious Practice

Attends religious services monthly or more survey43.4%World Values Survey2020 Believes in God survey99.3%World Values Survey2020

Trust People

Most people can be trusted survey14.8%World Values Survey2020 Trusts people met for the first time survey34.0%World Values Survey2020

Trust Institutions

Confidence in the government survey52.0%World Values Survey2020 Confidence in parliament survey64.9%World Values Survey2020 Confidence in the police survey85.1%World Values Survey2020 Confidence in the courts survey77.0%World Values Survey2020 Confidence in the press survey60.5%World Values Survey2020

Family Structure

Family is very important in life survey93.9%World Values Survey2020

Gender Roles

Women in national parliament 4.9%World Bank2025 When jobs are scarce, men should have more right to a job survey69.8%World Values Survey2020 Men make better political leaders than women survey55.3%World Values Survey2020

Democracy

It is important to live in a democracy survey81.2%World Values Survey2020 Satisfied with how democracy works survey51.1%World Values Survey2020 A strong leader without elections is good survey53.4%World Values Survey2020

Participation

Has signed a petition or joined a demonstration survey11.7%World Values Survey2020

Immigration Attitudes

Would not want immigrants as neighbours survey41.8%World Values Survey2020

Employment

Unemployment rate 8.3%World Bank2025 Youth unemployment rate 21.9%World Bank2025 Female labour force participation 14.0%World Bank2025 Male labour force participation 67.2%World Bank2025 Self-employed share 42.9%World Bank2025

Redistribution

Incomes should be made more equal survey18.5%World Values Survey2020 Work is very important in life survey77.8%World Values Survey2020

Happiness

Very happy or rather happy survey69.7%World Values Survey2020

Safety

Intentional homicides 2.4per 100kWorld Bank2014

Tolerance

Homosexuality is justifiable survey4.1%World Values Survey2020 Would not want people of another race as neighbours survey27.6%World Values Survey2020

Socially closest countries

Distance is computed on 23 value questions the two societies were both asked, standardised within each survey so that a different questionnaire does not pass for a different society. Similarity is relative to the widest distance in the world.

Every number carries its source and year. Where a country is missing, it is missing — we do not interpolate.