Iranian diaspora

Iranian diaspora
Map of the Iranian diaspora in the world as of 2021
Total population
around 4,037,258 (2021)[1][2]
Americas1,905,813 (47.20%)
Europe1,184,552 (29.34%)
West Asia and Other (Asia and Oceania)1,115,572
Languages
Persian Languages of Iran
Religion

The Iranian diaspora refers to Iranian citizens or people of Iranian descent living outside Iran.[3]

This includes the varying ethnicities of the Iranian people including the following groups: Persians, Azeris, Kurds, Lors, Baluchs, Arabs, Turkomens, Assyrians, and Armenians.

In 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran published statistics, which showed that 4,037,258 Iranians are living abroad, an increase from previous years.[1][2] Many of them live in North America, Europe, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Australia and the broader Middle East.[4][5] Other studies have estimated about 1.5 million or fewer Iranians living abroad.[6] Many of them migrated to other countries after the Iranian Revolution in 1979.[7][8]

By 2020s the country witnessed mass waves of immigration out of the country. With 100% rise just in 2023.A ministry of immigration has been proposed after reports indicated critical statistics mainly because of political instability.[9][10][11]

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  2. ^ a b "آمار پراکندگی ایرانیان مقیم خارج از کشور + نمودار". Gostaresh.news. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  3. ^ "Diaspora". Iranicaonline.org. Encyclopædia Iranica. December 15, 1995. pp. 370–387. Archived from the original on 9 February 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  4. ^ Esfandiari, Golnaz (2004-03-08). "Iran: Coping With The World's Highest Rate Of Brain Drain". Rferl.org. Archived from the original on 2008-04-29. Retrieved 2012-12-10.
  5. ^ "Migration Information Source - Iran: A Vast Diaspora Abroad and Millions of Refugees at Home". Migrationinformation.org. Archived from the original on 2014-02-15. Retrieved 2012-12-10.
  6. ^ According to one 2012-Pew study there were only 1,340,000 Iranian-born expatriates."Faith on the Move: The Religious Affiliation of International Migrants". Pewforum.org. 2012-03-08. Archived from the original on 2013-01-22. Retrieved 2012-12-10.
  7. ^ Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad, The Politics of Iranian Cinema: Film and Society in the Islamic Republic, Routledge (2009), p. 17
  8. ^ Bagherpour, Amir (September 12, 2020). "The Iranian Diaspora in America: 30 Years in the Making". Frontline. Tehran Bureau, PBS.
  9. ^ اقتصاد24, پایگاه خبری، تحلیلی. "افزایش بی سابقه موج مهاجرت ایرانیان در سال ۱۴۰۲ | اقتصاد24". fa (in Persian). Retrieved 2024-04-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ https://farsi.alarabiya.net/iran/2023/09/13/%D8%A8%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%85%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%AA-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%9B-%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%AA-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D8%B7%D8%A8%D9%82%D9%87-%D9%85%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%B7-%D8%B1%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%AF
  11. ^ "بی‌سابقه‌ترین موج مهاجرت از ایران/ وزارتخانه مهاجرت تشکیل می‌شود؟". تجارت نیوز (in Persian). 2024-04-11. Retrieved 2024-04-11.

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