IRN · Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan

Iran, Islamic Rep.

92,417,681

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+849.94K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+39.1%from 66.42M
Life expectancy77.9 years2024
Fertility rate1.68births per woman · 2024
Urban population77.4%2025
RegionMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & PakistanUpper middle income

A country at every age

How Iran, Islamic Rep. is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1422.0%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6469.4%Working-age population
Ages 65+8.6%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate12.6births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate4.8deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+7.8births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+116.79Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Iran, Islamic Rep. look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 101.86M in 2050—11.2% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202491.57M
  2. 2050101.86M
  3. 210080.05M
Median age in 205043.5years
Births in 2050985.6Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050855.98Kduring the year
Life expectancy82.7years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 196021.47M
  2. 197029.15M
  3. 198039.84M
  4. 199058.38M
  5. 200066.42M
  6. 201077.42M
  7. 202087.72M
  8. 202592.42M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryValidated dataChecked 9/24/2026

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