[7], According to the OECD/World Bank statistics population growth in Iran from 1990 to 2008 was 17.6 million and 32%. Since the 1979 revolution the persecution of Baháʼís has increased with executions, the denial of civil rights and liberties, and the denial of access to higher education and employment. The official language in Iraq is Arabic, which is understood almost universally, although 10-15% of the population also speaks Kurdish (also used in official work). According to the 2016 population census the population of Iran was 79.9 million,[1] a fourfold increase since 1956. Religious demography. Their music, art, and poetry are ranked the best in Iran. The resident population refers to people who lived in the UK for 12 months or more, and included those who were resident for less than 12 months but intended to stay for a total period of 12 months or more. [5][6] Citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran are officially divided into four categories: Muslims, Zoroastrians, Jews and Christians. V. Minorsky, "Tat" in M. Th. [dubious – discuss] Studies project that Iran's rate of population growth will continue to slow until it stabilizes above 100 million by 2050. Karbabad, Salmabad, Karzakan, Duraz, Barbar, which indicates that the history of Ajams is much older. (2013). Under the Pahlavi dynasty from 1925 until the Iranian revolution of 1979, even though atheism was not officially accepted, it was tolerated. Iran’s census claims that 99.5% of the population are Muslim, a figure that hides the state’s active hostility toward irreligiosity, conversion and unrecognised religious minorities. [23] Changes in urbanization law and regulations eased the urbanization process of rural areas, which created more than 400 cities only in the period of 1996-2005.[24]. [63][64], CIA World Factbook demographic statistics, See Iran in Encyclopedia of Islam, Leiden. Ce sont les safavides qui firent de la Perse le bastion de l'islam chiite face aux assauts de l'islam sunnite orthodoxe, et ce sont eux aussi qui ont constitué les traditions culturelles et la conscience du peuple iranien actuel [ 17 ] . Non-UK born residents [10] Less than 1% non-Muslim minorities include Christians, Zoroastrians, Jews, Baháʼís, Mandeans, and Yarsan. Religions > All: This entry includes a rank ordering of religions by adherents starting with … The Parsis are the close-knit Zoroastrian community based primarily in India but also found in Pakistan. The 2011 census numbered Zoroastrians at only 25,000. [46] As of 2016, some 300,000 work permits have been issued for foreign nationals in Iran. In Iran outliers in the Y-chromosomes and Mitochondrial DNA gene pool are consisted by the north Iranian ethnicities, such as the Gilaki's and Mazandarani's, whose genetic build up including chromosomal DNA are nearly identical to the major South Caucasian ethnicities, namely the Georgians, Armenians and Azerbaijani's. Data tables, maps, charts, and live population clock. This official division ignores other religious minorities in Iran, notably the agnostics, atheists and Bahá'ís. The Tats are part of the indigenous peoples of Iranian origin in the Caucasus. To deny Iranian identity and consider nationalism irreligious is part and parcel of the anti-Iranian movement and is the work of the anti-revolutionaries". [7], According to the Ali Reza Eshraghi, religious pressure and inadequate governing from the Iranian government have made Iranian people less religious. In both Pakistan and India, they are famous for their restaurants and tea-houses. It is the first language for Persians, and ethnic minorities use it as a second language. The core characteristics and beliefs of the world's major religions are described below. Some religions have harmonized with local cultures and can be seen as a cultural background rather than a formal religion. It has always been a minority religion relative to the majority state religions, though it had a much larger representation in the past than it does today. By far the largest group of Christians in Iran are Armenians under the Armenian Apostolic Church which has between 110,000,[28] 250,000,[29] and 300,000,[30] adherents. [39], The term "Iranian citizens abroad" or " Iranian/Persian diaspora" refers to the Iranian people and their children born in Iran but living outside of Iran. [11] Iran is one of the most tech-savvy societies in the developing world, with an estimated 28 million Internet users, led by youth. There is a historical context to opposing organised religion and not having faith in Islam throughout the centuries in Iran. Christianity in Iran dates back to the early years of the faith, pre-dating Islam. [16] Additionally, the number of Muslim Iranian-Americans decreased from 42% in 2008 to 31% in 2012. [45][46] Between 1979 and 1997, UNHCR spent more than US$1 billion on Afghan refugees in Pakistan but only $150 million on those in Iran. The remainder are primarily speakers of Semitic languages such as Arabic and Assyrian. [23][41][42] According to the 2000 Census and other independent surveys, there are an estimated 1 million Iranian-Americans living in the U.S., in particular, the Los Angeles area is estimated to be host to approximately 72,000 Iranians, earning the Westwood area of LA the nickname Tehrangeles. V. Minorsky, "Tat" in M. Th. Iran’s religious population was previously a Sunni majority until the Safavids were seated and converted the country to Shia Islam in the 16th-18th century. and Suppl., Leiden: Late E.J. Houtsma et al., eds., The Encyclopædia of Islam: A Dictionary of the Geography, Ethnography and Biography of the Muhammadan Peoples, 4 vols. Other outliers are made by the Baloch people, representing a mere 1-2% of the total Iranian population, who have more patrilinial and mitochondrial DNA lines leaning towards northwest South Asian ethnic groups. Table 9 – Population and Average Annual Growth by Provinces: 2006 and 2011. Currently there are at least 600 churches and 500,000–1,000,000 Christians in Iran. [6][5][21], Selected Findings of National Population and Housing Census, "IRANIANS' ATTITUDES TOWARD RELIGION: A 2020 SURVEY REPORT", "Iran's secular shift: new survey reveals huge changes in religious beliefs", "Iranians have lost their faith according to survey", Public Opinion Survey of Iranian Americans, "Disparaging Islam and the Iranian-American Identity: To Snuggle or to Struggle", "Iranians under the Islamic regime: more or less religious? [11] After the 2009 presidential election, youth was the biggest bloc involved in the region's first sustained “people power” movement for democratic change, creating a new political dynamic in the Middle East. The Baháʼí … In addition to this, many names of ancient villages in Bahrain are of Persian origin. Update to date information about population of Iran in 2021. In official 2011 census, 265,899 persons did not state any religion (0.3% of total population). Density of population is calculated as permanently settled population of Iran divided by total area of the country. Speakers of Turkic languages, most notably Azerbaijanis, which is by far the second-most spoken language in the country, but also the Turkmen, and the Qashqai peoples, comprise a substantial minority. Iran's population increased dramatically during the later half of the 20th century, reaching about 80 million by 2016. Today, Iran is known to be an Islamic country with 99.4% of the country identifying as Muslims. They have traditionally been merchants living in specific quarters of Manama and Muharraq. [8] The literacy rate was 80% in 2002,[9][10] and 85% in 2016.[11]. As a result… L’Iran a sur … Qashqai) 1%, and non-Persian, non-Turkic groups (e.g. [50], Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) represents the female lineage. Source: Population data from United Nations (updated May 2011); 2005 GDP per capita (in 2005 PPP $) from 2007/2008 U.N. Human Development Report; Literacy rate for 2012 from U.N. 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[15], Nearly as many Iranian Americans identify as irreligious as Muslim, and a full one-fifth are Christians, Jews, Baháʼís, or Zoroastrians. The official language in Iran is Persian also known as Farsi. ", "A New Direction in Population Policy and Family Planning in the Islamic Republic of Iran", "Iran's population growth rate falls to 1.5 percent: UNFP", "International News | World News - ABC News", "Central bank: Income equality improved in Iran", "World Population Prospects: The 2019 Revision", "United Nations Statistics Division - Demographic and Social Statistics", ". The Circassians in Iran, a very large minority in the past and speakers of the Circassian language, have been strongly assimilated and absorbed within the population in the past few centuries. Irreligion in Iran has a long historical background, non-religious citizens are officially unrecognized by the Iranian government. Brill and London: Luzac, 1913–38. [3][4] Half of Iran's population was under 35 years old in 2012. This work was also written in the 10th century. Iran was reported by The Washington Post to be among the thirteen countries where atheism can attract capital punishment. L’islam représente environ 98% de la population, mais il existe de nombreuses minorités religieuses. Iran’s census claims that 99.5% of the population are Muslim, a figure that hides the state’s active hostility toward irreligiosity, conversion and unrecognised religious minorities. Parsis are descended from Persian Zoroastrians who emigrated to the Indian subcontinent over 1,000 years ago. Note that this differs from the other Iranian peoples living in other areas of Greater Iran, who are of related ethnolinguistical family, speaking languages belonging to the Iranian languages which is a branch of Indo-European languages. According to 2015 population estimates, approximately 73.4 percent of Iran's population lives in urban areas, up from 27 percent in 1950. With the advent of communism in Russia (the northern neighbour of Iran) and the huge popularity of communist parties in Iran, such as the Tudeh Party especially in the late 1940s and 1960s, atheism grew in popularity. ", "The seven countries where the state can execute you for being atheist", "Losing Our Religion: The Growth Of The 'Nones, "2012 NATIONAL PUBLIC OPINION SURVEY of IRANIAN AMERICANS regarding Potential Military Strike Against Iran", "Public Opinion Survey of Iranian Americans", "Reacties stromen binnen bij Comité voor Ex-moslims", "Persian NYers Show Their Pride at Murray Hill Parade", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Irreligion_in_Iran&oldid=1020651788, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 30 April 2021, at 08:40. [9], Irreligious Iranian youth aim to moderate Iranian government policy,[10] and the Iranian youth are among the most politically active among the 57 nations of the Islamic world. Under Iranian law, apostasy from Islam is punishable by death. [1] However, according to a 2020 Online Survey by Gamaan found a much larger percentage of Iranians identifying as Atheist (8.8%), and a large fraction (22.2%) identifying as not following an organized religion, and 40% not identifying as Muslim.[2][3][4]. The Kurds and Turkmen are predominantly Sunni Muslims, but Iran’s Arabs are both Sunni and Shiʿi. [11] Most young Iranians are believed to want to be part of the international community and globalization.[11]. Persians hold a majority of government positions. Iran is an ethnically diverse country although the Iranian government does not disclose any information about ethnicity through its statistics; However, most sources confirm that the Persians represent 61% of the population, followed by the Kurds (10%), the Lour (6%), and the Baloch (2%). [5], In 2009, the number of households stood at 15.3 million (4.8 persons per household). Ajams are also a large percentage of the populace in UAE, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman. The last religion to enter Iran was Islam. Religion in Iraq was overwhelmingly Muslim as of 2015, Iraq's Muslims follow two distinct traditions, Shia and Sunni Islam. In 2009, there were an estimated 5,000 and 10,000 Mandaeans in Iran, according to the Associated Press. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/religious-beliefs-and-freedoms-in-iran.html Atheists poll at 9 percent of the population (and nones, or no religious affiliation, overall at 22%); Zoroastrians at 7 percent. 1 The population of the provinces of Alborz and Tehran for 2006 and their average annual growth have been calculated based on the data of 2011. Likely the ancestors of modern Tats settled in South Caucasus when the Sassanid Empire from the 3rd to 7th centuries built cities and founded military garrisons to strengthen their positions in this region.[61]. C.E. Small communities of Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians are also found throughout the country. Their last names often resemble modern Iranian names, however Irani is a common surname among them. Other sources, such as the Library of Congress, and the Encyclopedia of Islam (Leiden)[21] give Iran's ethnic groups as following: Persians 65%, Azerbaijanis 16%, Kurds 7%, Lurs 6%, Arabs 2%, Baloch 2%, Turkmens 1%, Turkic tribal groups (e.g. i.e. Persians and their culture dominate the Iranian population. Indian census data (2001) records 69,601 Parsis in India, with a concentration in and around the city of Mumbai (previously known as Bombay). Huwala are the descendants of Persians and Persian Arabs who belong to the Sunni sect of Islam. Of it population of approximately 83 million, approximately 98 percent of Iran is Muslim (as of 2006). ancient Iran religions and Iranian religions, in general, are some religions or religious movements that explain issues based on the cultural model and beliefs of Iranians. There are hundreds of Christian churches in Iran. Iranian Christians Total population … The major part (89%) of the population in Iran is Shi'a Muslim, 10% is Sunni Muslim, and the remaining 1% are Christian, Zoroastrian, Baha’i and Jewish. Iran hosts one of the largest refugee population in the world, with more than one million refugees, mostly from Afghanistan (80%) and Iraq (10%). However, significant pockets do exist spread over the country, and they are the second-largest Caucasus-derived group in the nation after the Georgians. Excerpt: Like most Persian dialects, Tati is not very regular in its characteristic features", Borjian, Habib, "Tabari Language Materials from Il'ya Berezin's Recherches sur les dialectes persans", Iran and the Caucasus, Volume 10, Number 2, 2006, pp. [19], A British-Iranian organisation, “Iranian Atheists Association”, has been established in 2013 to form a platform for Iranian atheists to start debate and question the current Islamic republic’s attitude towards atheists, apostasy and human rights. The total population in Iran was estimated at 84.0 million people in 2020, according to the latest census figures and projections from Trading Economics. About 99% of the Iranians are Muslims; 90% belong to the Shi'a branch of Islam, the official state religion, and about 9% belong to the Sunni branch, which predominates in neighboring Muslim countries. They occupy major urban areas such as Tehran, Esfahan, Mashhad, Yazd and Shiraz. [63] Huwala migrated from Ahvaz in Iran to the Persian Gulf in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. In addition to its international migration pattern, Iran also exhibits one of the steepest urban growth rates in the world according to the UN humanitarian information unit. Their combined net worth is estimated to be $1.3 trillion.[44]. Non-Muslims, mostly Assyrian Christians, make up 5% of the population. There are approximately 8,000 Parsis elsewhere on the subcontinent, with an estimated 2,500 Parsis in the city of Karachi and approximately 50 Parsi families in Sri Lanka. [38] Whereas Alarabiya has put the number of Iranian Mandaeans as high as 60,000 in 2011. The number of Parsis worldwide is estimated to be fewer than 100,000 (Eliade, 1991:254). Christians are the largest minority religion at 250,000 to 370,000. Religion of Iran. Mehdi Bazargan noted "to view Islam as an opposition to Iranian nationalism is tantamount to destroying ourselves. The "Ajam" are an ethnic community of Bahrain, of Iranian origin. [53][54][55], Tats use the Tat language, a southwestern Iranian language and a variety of Persian[56][57][58][59][60] Azerbaijani and Russian are also spoken. Further skepticism of the ideas of God could be seen in the quatrains of Khayyam where the compassion of God and the ideas of afterlife are continuously questioned. 2006, Nasidze et al. ancient Iran religions. [22] For sources prior to and after 2000, see Languages and ethnicities in Iran. 90-95% of the Muslim population identify as Shi’a and the rest identify as Sunni . According to CIA World Factbook Iraq is 99% Muslim. and Suppl., Leiden: Late E.J. It is believed that these names were given during the Safavid rule of Bahrain (1501–1722). Unlike the Parsis, they speak a Dari dialect, the language spoken by the Iranian Zoroastrians in Yazd and Kerman. Total area is the sum of land and water areas within international boundaries and coastlines of Iran. [31] The Baháʼí Faith, Iran's largest non-Muslim religious minority with a population around 300,000, is not officially recognized (and therefore not included in the census results), and has been persecuted since in inception in Iran.
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