People of Iranian ancestry outside Iran
Ethnic group
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]
Since the 2020s, the country has experienced mass waves of immigration out of the country [fa ] . 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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^ 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 .
^ Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad, The Politics of Iranian Cinema: Film and Society in the Islamic Republic , Routledge (2009), p. 17
^ Bagherpour, Amir (September 12, 2020). "The Iranian Diaspora in America: 30 Years in the Making" . Frontline . Tehran Bureau, PBS.
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