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"Diversity in Council, Unity in Command"
- Cyrus the Great
Twelver Shia Islam is the official state religion, to which about 90% to 95% of the population officially belong. About 4% to 8% of the population are Sunni Muslims, mainly Kurds and Balochs. The remaining 2% are non-Muslim religious minorities, including Christians, Jews, Bahais, Mandeans, Yezidis, Yarsanis, and Zoroastrians.
Historically, Proto-Iranian religion and the subsequent Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism were the dominant religions in Persia, particularly during the Median, Achaemenid, Parthian and Sassanid empires. This changed after the fall of the Sassanid Empire by the Muslim Conquest of Persia. Persia was predominantly Sunni until the conversion of the country to Shia Islam by the order of the Safavid dynasty in the 16th century.
Today, the Twelver Shia Islam is the official state religion, to which about 90% to 95% of the population officially belong. About 4% to 8% of the population are Sunni Muslims, mainly Kurds and Balochs. The remaining 2% are non-Muslim religious minorities, including Christians, Jews, Bahais, Mandeans, Yezidis, Yarsanis, and Zoroastrians.
Judaism has a long history in Persia, dating back to the Achaemenid Conquest of Babylonia. Around 20,756 Jews reside in Persia, according to the latest census. Persia has the largest Jewish population in the Middle East.
Around 3,172,366 Christians reside in Afsharid Persia, and it is the largest recognized minority religion in the nation. Most are of Armenian background with a sizable minority of Assyrians as well.
Christianity, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, and the Sunni branch of Islam are officially recognized by the government, and have reserved seats in the Afsharid Persian Parliament. But the Bahá'í Faith, which is said to be the second largest non-Muslim religious minority in Afsharid Persia, is not officially recognized.
National Demograhics of the Imperial State of Afsharid PersiaNational Census Department — 2020
Total Population | Density | Growth Rate
(since last census 2019) | Nationality | Official Language |
97,075,933 |
52 | 1.20% |
Persian | Persian |
Demography — In Detail (2020)
Wi | Race and Ethnicity | — Persians
— Azeris
— Kurds
— Lurs
— Mazanderanis
— Armenians
— Gilaks
— Baloch
— Arabs
— Turkmen
— Talysh
— Qashqai
— Other (Georgians, Assyrians, Circassians, Jews) | 47,523,207 | 49%
21,312,705 | 22%
8,692,834 | 9%
4,809,798 | 5%
3,839,038 | 4%
3,041,514 | 3%
2,912,178 | 3%
1,941,518 | 2%
1,093,134 | 1%
790,031 | 0.7%
485,379 | 0.5%
388,303 | 0.4%
379,779 | 0.4%
|
Wi | Religious Affiliations | — Shia Islam
— Sunni Islam
— Christianity
— Judaism
— Zoroastrianism
— Yarsanism
— Mandeism
— Atheism
— Bahá'í Faith
| 13,300,000 | 90%
8,520,000 | 4%
1,512,000 | 3.6%
1,100,000 | 1.3%
1,089,200 | 0.7%
436,000 | 0.1%
103,600 | 0.1%
34,000 | 0.1%
5,200 | 0.01%
|
Wi | Income | — One Precent/Ultra-Wealthy/Party Elites
— Upper Class
— Middle Class
— Working Class
— In Poverty | 6217 | 0.05%
1,355,306| 10.9%
5,035,770 | 40.5%
5,781,810| 46.5%
373,020| 3.0% |
Wi | Ages | — 0 - 14 Years
— 15 - 24 Years
— 25 - 54 Years
— 55 - 64 Years
— 65 Years & over | 13.9%
11.11%
43.5%
14.42%
16.26% |
Wi | Birth, Growth,
and Death Rates | 19.2 Births | 1,000 population
/year |
Life Expectancy at Birth | Total Fertility Rate
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76.7 YEARS | 4.52 children born/woman |
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