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Iran

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Iran is a country. The capital city is Tehran, located in the Southern Asia region of Asia. It has a land area of 1,622,500 km², a population of 90,608,707 people and uses the currency Iranian rial. The Supreme Leader is Ali Khamenei.

Key facts

currency: Iranian rial
capital city: Tehran
region: Southern Asia
continent: Asia
land area: 1,622,500 km²
population: 90,608,707 people
political leader: Ali Khamenei (Supreme Leader)

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expense: 19.64 % of GDP
GDP: 404,625,655,204.62 current US$
inflation: 44.58 annual %
self-employed workers: 42.51 % of total employment
tax revenue: 7.36 % of GDP
unemployment: 9.04 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 39.21 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 650,000 people
democracy score: 2.45
democracy type: Authoritarian
individuals using the Internet: 79.60 % of population
military expenditure: 2.06 % of GDP
net migration: 262,044 people
press freedom: 1.21
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 5.59 %
birth rate: 13.24 per 1,000 people
death rate: 6.15 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 338.25 current US$
health expenditure: 5.40 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.03 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 1.86 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 75
suicide mortality rate: 5.20 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 470,276.67 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 0.91 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 778.80 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 100.00 % of population
electricity production from coal sources: 0.16 % of total
electricity production from natural gas sources: 79.27 % of total
electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 5.02 % of total
electricity production from nuclear sources: 1.63 % of total
electricity production from oil sources: 14.43 % of total
electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 0.08 % of total
net energy imports: -33.40 % of energy use
fertility rate: 1.68 births per woman
forest area: 107,758 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 99.02 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 996.75 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 28.80
methane emissions: 170.30 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 29.77 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 44,547,105 people
male population: 46,061,602 people
renewable energy consumption: 0.90 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 1,601,053.35 km²
rural population: 20,607,138 people
urban land area: 16,217.10 km²
urban population: 70,001,569 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 0.76 % of total population

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Location on a map: 32°0′N, 53°0′E

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Iran is one of the countries in Asia, countries in Southern Asia and 194 countries in our database.

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Distribution of universities in Iran per foundation year

Distribution of diseases by first founded year in Iran

Distribution of athletes from Iran by birth date

Distribution of politicians from Iran by birth year

Evolution of historical unemployment in Iran with forecast

Evolution of historical urban population in Iran with forecast

Evolution of historical armed forces personnel in Iran with forecast

Evolution of historical methane emissions in Iran with forecast

Map of the distribution of cities in Iran by population

Map of the distribution of sites in Iran by area

Map of the distribution of universities in Iran by total students

Map of the distribution of museums in Iran by visitors

Share of politicians per gender in Iran

Share of employee types in companies from Iran

Share of revenue types by company in Iran

Share of athletes per gender in Iran

Correlation of urban land area and armed forces personnel by countries yearly in Iran

Correlation of carbon dioxide emissions and urban population by countries yearly in Iran

Correlation of carbon dioxide emissions and greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6) by countries yearly in Iran

Correlation of other greenhouse gas emissions and methane emissions by countries yearly in Iran

In literature

There are 1,493 books written about Iran in the database.

This dashboard is based on data from: SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders.

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