- ISO 3166
IR- Main language + region
fa-IR- Currency
- IRR · Iranian Rial
- Region
- EMEA · MENA · MENAP
Iran
Iran has 88.4M people, and 75.4M of them are online. Persian is the most widely spoken language at 75%, one of 20 languages CLDR lists here. Persian is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to fa-IR.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
75.4M
0%world median 81%100%
85% of 88.4M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$3,924
Higher than 29% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
91%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
20
Persian 75% · Azerbaijani 24% · Mazanderani 5%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
492
Very lowVery high
Low proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
85%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Iran
share of 88.4M people
- Persianofficial75%66.3M
- Azerbaijani24%21.2M
- Mazanderani5%4.4M
- Gilaki4.6%4.1M
- Southern Kurdish4.5%4M
- Turkmen2.8%2.5M
- Northern Luri2.1%1.9M
- Arabic2%1.8M
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 12 more languages sit below the top eight, at 10.6% combined.
CLDR records Persian in 9 territories and 89.2M speakers in total; Iran holds 74% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Persian profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (fa-IR).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Arabic
Bundle a Noto-class webfont that covers this script. OS defaults vary.
Reading direction
Right-to-left
Use logical CSS properties (padding-inline-start, etc.). Wrap interpolated LTR with <bdi> or FSI/PDI.
Date
۱ اردیبهشت ۱۴۰۵
Short: ۱۴۰۵/۲/۱
Time
۱۸:۳۰
Week starts Sat
Currency
ریال ۱٬۲۳۵
1,234.56 in IRR · Iranian Rial
The engineering behind the flags: Bidirectional text: why the dollar sign wanders in an RTL string · RTL layouts: what flips and what doesn't · Font fallback: why the OS picks the wrong glyphs for this script