🔶Warning against a possible decrease in Iran's population to 31 million.
According to ILNA, the Iranian Labor News Agency, Marzia Vahid Dastjerdi, secretary of the National Population Headquarters, announced that the total fertility rate in Iran in 2025 reached 1.34 children per woman, while to maintain Iran's current population, the index should be above 2.1.
Citing World Health Organization estimates, he warned that if the current trend continues, Iran's population will drop to 31 million in the next 75 years.
Vahid Dastjerdi saw inflation, the high cost of housing, delay in marriage, cultural changes, individualism and the difficulty of balancing employment and childbirth for working women as reasons for the decline in the birth rate.