IRAN WATCH CANADA

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

The population of Iran was just below 69,000,000 in a 2006 survey. The majority of Iranians live in the key Irani cities, with over 12 million residing in Tehran (the capital of Iran).
The population growth rate in Iran was estimated at 1.1% as per the survey referenced above.
What does the Iranian population look like? The majority of Iranians fall into the 15 – 64 age group (69%), whilst 26.1% are 0 – 14 years and only 4.9% are 65 years and over. The median age is 24 years for males and 25 years for females. For this reason, the general population of Iran is extremely young, which will provide challenges for the Iranian government to ensure that sufficient jobs are available for this significantly large part of the population who are either currently of working age, or, who will be of working age in the near future.
Life expectancy for the Iranian population at birth is approximately 70 years (68 years for Iranian males and 71 years for Iranian females).
The population in Iran is growing at an alarming rate of over 3.3% per year. This increase has been further fuelled by the numbers of individuals who have been forced to leave surrounding countries by the wars inflicted on their countries (e.g. Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon). It is likely that this figure will continue to grow in the near future.

The ethnicity of the Iranian population is primarily Persian with over 51%. The second biggest group is Azeri and the remaining portion of the population are either Gilaki (8%), Kurd (7%), Arab (3%) and other (7%).
The majority of the Iranian population are Shi’a Muslims (89%) whilst 10% are Sunni Muslims and the remaining 1% are Christian, Zorastrian, Baha’I and Jewish .


Link to this statistics:
http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/country/iran/population.html

Iran Watch Canada:
According to one survey 70% of Iranian population are young .
65% of world crude oil is deposited in the Middle East.
Middle East with : 542billion barrel of oil
America with : 30 billion barrel of oil
Saudi Arabia: 262 billion barrel
Iran: 137 billion
Kuwait: 105 billion

Iran has the 2nd ranking in the world for its natural gas with 18%.
Iran's National Oil managing director announced that:
Iran will be having its oil for another 100 years!
71 billion barrel of Iran's oil is still buried!
Daily production of oil in Iran is 4200,000 barrel.
Yet according to the website of "Motalafeh Eslami " party , a conservative party in Iran; around 16.5 million of Iran's population leave relatively below poverty line.

Mr. Hosainali Ziaei the managing director of social welfare organization have announced that ; 6100,000 of working people are under social welfare .

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