- ISO 3166
IR- Primary locale
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.
At a glance
Each figure is drawn against the rest of the world, so a number means something before you have any other market to compare it with.
People online
75.4M
0%world median 81%100%
85% of 88.4M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
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 what people can spend, not what your product will earn.
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, so treat it as colour for a discussion. 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 it shifts toward another language.
What people speak
Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.
Most spoken in Iran
share of 88.4M people
- Persianofficial75%66.3M
- Azerbaijani24%21.2M
- Mazanderani5%4.4M
- Gilaki5%4.1M
- Southern Kurdish5%4M
- Turkmen3%2.5M
- Northern Luri2%1.9M
- Arabic2%1.8M
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible. 12 more languages sit below the top eight, at 10.6% combined.
One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
What you would ship
Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against fa-IR, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
2
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
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