Indicator	Value
Total population	91,600,000 peopleUN DESA WPP [2024] 91,570,000 people·World Bank WDI [2024] 91,570,000 people
Median age	33.4 yearsUN DESA WPP [2024]
Life expectancy	77.7–77.9 yearsWorld Bank WDI [2024] 77.85 years·UNDP HDI [2023] 77.65 years
Ethnic groups	Persian, Azeri, Kurd, Lur, Baloch, Arab, Turkmen, and Turkic tribesCIA World Factbook [2025] · 2026 archive
Languages	Persian Farsi (official), Azeri and other Turkic dialects, Kurdish, Gilaki and Mazandarani, Luri, Balochi, ArabicCIA World Factbook [2025] · 2026 archive
Religions	Muslim (official) 98.5%, Christian 0.7%, Baha'i 0.3%, agnostic 0.3%, other (includes Zoroastrian, Jewish, Hindu) 0.2% (2020 est.)CIA World Factbook [2025] · 2026 archive
Urbanization	77.3% of total population (2023)CIA World Factbook [2025] · 2026 archive
Population growth	1.05 %World Bank WDI [2024]
Birth rate	12.6 per 1,000World Bank WDI [2024]
Death rate	4.75 per 1,000World Bank WDI [2024]
Urban population	77 %World Bank WDI [2024]
Languages (structured)	Aimaq Alamuti Alviri-Vidari Ashtiani Assyrian Neo-Aramaic Avestan Bajelani Bakhtiari Balkan Romani Bashkardi Brahui Caspian and eastern Persia Gypsy Central Kurdish Central-Southern Persian Gypsy Classical Mandaic Dari Dezfuli-Shushtari Eastern Armenian Elamite Eshtehardi Fars Dialects Gazic Georgian Gilaki Gilit Mesopotamian Arabic Gulf Arabic Gurani Gurgani Gutian Harzani-Kilit Hazaragi Hulaulá Jadgali Judeo-Hamadani-Borujerdi Judeo-Persian Kabatei Kajali Karanic Karingani-Kalasuri-Khoynarudi Kavir Kazakh Khalaj Khalaj Turkic Kho'ini Kholosi Khorasan Arabic Khorasan Turkic Khunsaric Koroshi Laki Larestani Lasgerdi Lishán Didán Maraghei Mazanderani Muslim Tat Natanzic Nayinic Neo-Mandaic North Azerbaijani North-Central Talysh Northern Kurdish Northern Luri Northwestern Fars Old Persian (ca. 600-400 B.C.) Pahlavi Parsi-Dari Parthian Qahvehkhaneh Sign Language Qashqa'i Razajerdi Rudbari Salchuq Sangisari Seb Seliyer Semnani-Biyabuneki Shahmirzadi Shahrudi-Southern Talysh Sivandi Soic Sorkhei-Aftari South Azerbaijani Southern Balochi Southern Kurdish Southern Luri Southern Pashto Takestani Turkish Turkmen Tushan Names Upper Taromi Vafsi Western Balochi Western Farsi Zaban Eshareh Irani Zoroastrian Yazdi Glottolog [2026]