New Facts on Iran !
According to the final results of the 2011 National Population and Housing Census of Iran, the country’s population has reached 75,149,669 people. According to the census data, men constitute 50.4 percent of the country’s population, and women account for 49.6 percent, meaning 102 men to 100 women. Furthermore, the rural population constitutes 28.5 percent of the total population of the country, and urban population accounts for 71.4 percent. The population of the country has more than doubled since 1976, when it was 33.7 million people, Tehran, with a population of 12 million, is the most crowded province of the country, and Ilam, with a population of 557,599, is the most sparsely populated province. According to the published census, there are 1.6 million empty homes in the country. The number of cities in the country has increased from 201 in 1956 to 1331 in 2011, eight of which are metropolises whose populations are more than one million, On the religion of Iran’s ...