Non-Muslims, mostly Assyrian Christians, make up 5% of the population. The largest religious group in Syria is Sunni Muslims, who make up about 74% of the population, of whom Arabic-speaking Sunnis form the majority, followed by the Kurds, Turkmens/Turkomans, Circassians, and Palestinians.The capital cities of eleven of the fourteen governorates have Sunni majority populations, except for the cities of Latakia, Tartus, and Suwayda. Emigration has lowered the population of 75,000 to 80,000 Jews living in Iran prior to the 1979 Islamic revolution. Islam is by far the most common religion at 95% of the population. This work was also written in the 10th century. In official 2011 census, 265,899 persons did not state any religion (0.3% of total population). In India they are mostly located in modern-day Mumbai while in Pakistan they are mostly located in modern-day Karachi. Tats are mainly Shia Muslims, with a significant Sunni Muslim minority. V. Minorsky, "Tat" in M. Th. 90-95% of the Muslim population identify as Shi’a and the rest identify as Sunni . 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. [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. [12] The last noted legal execution for apostasy in Iran was in 2014, when Mohsen Amir-Aslani was convicted and executed for making "innovations in religion" and insulting the Prophet Jonah. [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. Definition: This entry is an ordered listing of religions by adherents starting with the largest group and sometimes includes the percent of total population. Thus, after the formation of the Safavid government, "Shiism" has always been the official religion of Iran. [1] While the rest follow Christianity , Yazidism and religious syncretism practiced by minorities in Iraq includes Mandaeism , Shabakism , and Yarsanism accounts for 1%. Under the Pahlavi dynasty from 1925 until the Iranian revolution of 1979, even though atheism was not officially accepted, it was tolerated. Looking back, in the year of 1960, Iran had a population of 22.0 million people. Religion in Iraq was overwhelmingly Muslim as of 2015, Iraq's Muslims follow two distinct traditions, Shia and Sunni Islam. By far the largest group of Christians in Iran are Armenians under the Armenian Apostolic Church which has between 110,000, 250,000, and 300,000, adherents. [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. 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]. [47], The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated. [10] Less than 1% non-Muslim minorities include Christians, Zoroastrians, Jews, Baháʼís, Mandeans, and Yarsan. Data tables, maps, charts, and live population clock. There are small groups using other Indo-European languages such as Armenian, Russian, Georgian (a member of the Kartvelian language family), spoken in a large pocket only by those Iranian Georgians that live in Fereydan, Fereydunshahr. Q (4%), comprise more than 85% of the total chromosomes. Small communities of Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians are also found throughout the country. The last religion to enter Iran was Islam. For example, Karo Derderian, the Armenian-Iranian poet and brother to the famous singer Viguen, famously wrote poetry rejecting both God and religion. [8] Some Iranian feminists have also been noted as being irreligious and atheistic. In 1948, there were approximately 140,000–150,000 Jews living in Iran. When the revolution in Iran succeeded, given that the Islamic faction of revolutionaries succeeded in gaining total control over the political landscape of the country, irreligion became a political issue. 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. In addition to this, many names of ancient villages in Bahrain are of Persian origin. C.E. Irreligion in Iran has a long historical background, non-religious citizens are officially unrecognized by the Iranian government. [38] Whereas Alarabiya has put the number of Iranian Mandaeans as high as 60,000 in 2011. [17][18], Jews have had a continuous presence in Iran since the time of Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Empire. 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. [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]. As a result… [63] Huwala migrated from Ahvaz in Iran to the Persian Gulf in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Iraq Religion, Economy and Politics. Today, Iran is known to be an Islamic country with 99.4% of the country identifying as Muslims. 2008, Bekada A, Fregel R, Cabrera VM, Larruga JM, Pestano J, et al. [19], The CIA World Factbook (which is based on 2013 statistics) gives the following numbers for the languages spoken in Iran today: Persian, Luri, Gilaki and Mazandarani 66%; Azerbaijani and other Turkic languages 18%; Kurdish 10%; Arabic 2%; Balochi 2%; others 2% (Armenian, Georgian, Circassian, Assyrian, etc.).[20]. 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 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. Atheists poll at 9 percent of the population (and nones, or no religious affiliation, overall at 22%); Zoroastrians at 7 percent. Houtsma et al., eds., The Encyclopædia of Islam: A Dictionary of the Geography, Ethnography and Biography of the Muhammadan Peoples, 4 vols. There is a historical context to opposing organised religion and not having faith in Islam throughout the centuries in Iran. Bosworth (editor), sfnp error: no target: CITEREFHooglund2008 (, Regueiro et al. The Kurds and Turkmen are predominantly Sunni Muslims, but Iran’s Arabs are both Sunni and Shiʿi. 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. [7], According to the Ali Reza Eshraghi, religious pressure and inadequate governing from the Iranian government have made Iranian people less religious. 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. Houtsma et al., eds., The Encyclopædia of Islam: A Dictionary of the Geography, Ethnography and Biography of the Muhammadan Peoples, 4 vols. [17][18], The Central Committee for Ex-Muslims was founded by Dutch-Iranian Ehsan Jami with an aim to support apostates and to bring attention to women's rights violations. 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. 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. The Parsis are the close-knit Zoroastrian community based primarily in India but also found in Pakistan. [14]In the book, Social Movements in 20th Century Iran: Culture, Ideology, and Mobilizing Frameworks, author Stephen C. Poulson adds that Western ideas are making Iranians irreligious. According to the Tehran Jewish Committee, the Jewish population of Iran was (more recently) estimated at about 25,000 to 35,000, of which approximately 15,000 are in Tehran with the rest residing in Hamadan, Shiraz, Isfahan, Kermanshah, Yazd, Kerman, Rafsanjan, Borujerd, Sanandaj, Tabriz and Urmia. 243-258(16). Of it population of approximately 83 million, approximately 98 percent of Iran is Muslim (as of 2006). 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. [52], Among them, U3b3 lineages appear to be restricted to populations of Iran and the Caucasus, while the sub-cluster U3b1a is common in the whole Near East region.[52]. Population of Iran: today, historical, and projected population, growth rate, immigration, median age. Iran population density is 51.3 people per square kilometer (132.8/mi 2) as of May 2021. 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%). [dubious – discuss] Studies project that Iran's rate of population growth will continue to slow until it stabilizes above 100 million by 2050. Indian census data (2001) records 69,601 Parsis in India, with a concentration in and around the city of Mumbai (previously known as Bombay). 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. Religion of Iran. 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. L’Iran est, avec l'Azerbaïdjan, l'Irak et Bahreïn, un des seuls pays du monde musulman à avoir plus de la moitié de sa population majoritairement chiite. [1][2] In recent years, however, Iran's birth rate has dropped significantly. [40], As of 2010, there are about four to five million Iranians living abroad, mostly in the United States, Canada, Europe, Persian Gulf States, Turkey, Australia and the broader Middle East. Density of population is calculated as permanently settled population of Iran divided by total area of the country. 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. This official division ignores other religious minorities in Iran, notably the agnostics, atheists and Bahá'ís. [52], The "Tats" are an Iranian people, presently living within Azerbaijan and Russia (mainly Southern Dagestan). [5], In 2009, the number of households stood at 15.3 million (4.8 persons per household). [5][6] Citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran are officially divided into four categories: Muslims, Zoroastrians, Jews and Christians. Most of those Georgians who live in the north Iranian provinces of Gilan, Mazandaran, Isfahan, Tehran Province and the rest of Iran no longer speak the language but keep a Georgian conscience. 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. Excerpt:"It embraces Gilani, Ta- lysh, Tabari, Kurdish, Gabri, and the Tati Persian of the Caucasus, all but the last belonging to the north-western group of Iranian language. The "Ajam" are an ethnic community of Bahrain, of Iranian origin. Huwala are the descendants of Persians and Persian Arabs who belong to the Sunni sect of Islam. ", CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (, Gernot Windfuhr, "Persian Grammar: history and state of its study", Walter de Gruyter, 1979. pg 4:""Tat- Persian spoken in the East Caucasus"". In both Pakistan and India, they are famous for their restaurants and tea-houses. 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. Since 2006, Iranian officials have been working with the UNHCR and Afghan officials for their repatriation. Religions > All: This entry includes a rank ordering of religions by adherents starting with … Table 9 – Population and Average Annual Growth by Provinces: 2006 and 2011. Non-UK born residents [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 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). Their combined net worth is estimated to be $1.3 trillion.[44]. [7], According to the OECD/World Bank statistics population growth in Iran from 1990 to 2008 was 17.6 million and 32%. [16] Additionally, the number of Muslim Iranian-Americans decreased from 42% in 2008 to 31% in 2012. L'Iran est le seul pays où l'islam chiite pénétra autant la population. [48], Y-Chromosome DNA Y-DNA represents the male lineage, the Iranian Y-chromosome pool is as follows where haplogroups, R1 (25%), J2 (23%) G (14%), J1 (8%) E1b1b (5%), L (4%), [3][4] Half of Iran's population was under 35 years old in 2012. Brill and London: Luzac, 1913–38. Iran supports by far the largest Jewish population of any Muslim country,estimated to be 25,000, though estimates vary, as low as 11,000 and as high as 40,000. 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. Persians are known to have a rich cultural heritage. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/religious-beliefs-and-freedoms-in-iran.html Mehdi Bazargan noted "to view Islam as an opposition to Iranian nationalism is tantamount to destroying ourselves. Although atheism was tolerated by the successive governments, socially the vast majority of people in Iran have been religious. [43] Other metropolises that have large Iranian populations include Dubai with 300,000 Iranians, Vancouver, London, Toronto, San Francisco Bay Area, Washington D.C., Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Stockholm, Berlin, Hamburg and Frankfurt. Christians of Iran have played a significant part in the history of Christian mission. Persians hold a majority of government positions. The number of Parsis worldwide is estimated to be fewer than 100,000 (Eliade, 1991:254). Persians and their culture dominate the Iranian population. [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. Many of them moved during the Qajar era, when persecution of Iranian Zoroastrians was rampant. (2013). Religion question on the 2011 England and Wales Census. The vast majority of Iranians are Muslims of the Ithnā ʿAsharī, or Twelver, Shiʿi branch, which is the official state religion. Karbabad, Salmabad, Karzakan, Duraz, Barbar, which indicates that the history of Ajams is much older. L’Iran a sur … [46] As of 2016, some 300,000 work permits have been issued for foreign nationals in Iran. (2013), R. Khanam,"Encyclopaedic Ethnography of Middle-East and Central Asia:P-Z, Volume 1", Global Vision Publishing Ho, 2005. pg 746:"The contemporary Tats are the descendants of an Iranian-speaking population sent out of Persia by the dynasty of the Sasanids in the fifth to sixth centuries. Under Iranian law, apostasy from Islam is punishable by death. Of these an estimated 89% were Shi'a and 9% Sunni (mostly Turkomen, Arabs, Baluchs, and Kurds living in the southwest, southeast, and northwest). They are estimated to make up 61% of the population. L’islam chiite duodécimain est la religion officielle d’Iran à laquelle 89 % de la population appartient. [8] The literacy rate was 80% in 2002,[9][10] and 85% in 2016.[11]. [32][33] Unofficial estimates for the Assyrian Christian population range between 20,000,[34][35] and 70,000. The official language in Iran is Persian also known as Farsi. [11] Most young Iranians are believed to want to be part of the international community and globalization.[11]. Armenians, Georgians, Assyrians, Circassians, Basseri ) less than 1%. Non-religious Iranians are officially unrecognized by the government, and one must declare oneself as a member of one of the four recognized faiths in order to avail oneself of many of the rights of citizenship. The Iranians who adhere to Shiite sect of Islam are Ajam, and they are different from the Huwala. Judaism has a very long history in the country, although the Revolution and the establishment of Israel have left just under 9,000 Jews in the country. [13] Furthermore, many people, such as Youcef Nadarkhani, Saeed Abedini have been recently harassed, jailed and sentenced to death for apostasy. i.e. According to CIA World Factbook Iraq is 99% Muslim. 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. Between 1976 and 1986, an average annual population growth of almost 4% was reached, but due to decreasing fertility levels the growth decreased to 1.2% between 2011 and 2016. Iran hosts one of the largest refugee population in the world, with more than one million refugees, mostly from Afghanistan (80%) and Iraq (10%). They are culturally and linguistically closer to the Zoroastrians of Iran. 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. 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". The following is a list of the eight most populous cities in the country: 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. 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. 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. [50], Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) represents the female lineage. There are hundreds of Christian churches in Iran. In 2009, there were an estimated 5,000 and 10,000 Mandaeans in Iran, according to the Associated Press. Parsis are descended from Persian Zoroastrians who emigrated to the Indian subcontinent over 1,000 years ago. According to the 2016 population census the population of Iran was 79.9 million,[1] a fourfold increase since 1956. 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. [11] As the most restive segment of Iranian society, the young also represent one of the greatest long-term threats to the current form of theocratic rule. However, the official 2011 state census recorded only 8,756 Jews in Iran. The Baháʼí … Their music, art, and poetry are ranked the best in Iran. and Suppl., Leiden: Late E.J. However, significant pockets do exist spread over the country, and they are the second-largest Caucasus-derived group in the nation after the Georgians. According to Harvard University professor Robert D. Putnam, the average Iranian-American is slightly less religious than the average American. 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. Iranian Christians Total population … Irreligious includes agnostic, atheist, secular believer, and people having no formal religious adherence. The major part (89%) of the population in Iran is Shi'a Muslim, 10% is Sunni Muslim, and the remaining 1% are [62] Some, such as Ardeshir Irani, have also become very famous in cinema. It is believed that these names were given during the Safavid rule of Bahrain (1501–1722). Brill and London: Luzac, 1913–38. [6] Families earn some 11.8 million rials (about $960) per month on average (2012). Iran (Persian: ایران ‎ Irān [ʔiːˈɾɒːn] ()), also called Persia and officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (Persian: جمهوری اسلامی ایران ‎ Jomhuri-ye Eslāmi-ye Irān [dʒomhuːˌɾije eslɒːˌmije ʔiːˈɾɒn]), is a country in Western Asia.It is bordered to the northwest by Armenia and Azerbaijan, to the …
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