More than 75% of respondents to an Iran Open Data poll said they have contemplated suicide at some point in their lives. Of those polled, 26% said they attempted suicide in the previous year. Men attempt suicide more than women, the poll suggests, while singles attempt suicide more than married peop
In response to a new Iran Open Data poll, 85 percent of the participants stated they did not observe fasting during Ramadan. Seventy percent of those who said they did not fast said they did not face repercussions, while 16 percent said they were reprimanded for eating in public during fast time. Le
The Islamic Republic has long had the ambition of exporting gas to Europe via Turkey. During Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s presidency (2005-2013), when the relations with the West soured, Iran lost its opportunity of exporting natural gas to European countries, instead, other countries such as Russia, Qatar
Three out of four participants in the latest Iran Open Data poll state that they have been, at least once, a victim of dogmatic violence perpetrated by a family member. Only about a third of the participants admit that they have committed domestic violence against another family member. Violence inc
A review of Iran’s 2022 Appropriations Bill shows that the revenue of the IRGC’s Central Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters has increased more than 16-fold year on year.Central Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters (not to be confused with Khatam al-Anbiya Construction Headquarters) is the highest military opera
Iran Open Data’s review of the country’s 2022 appropriations bill shows that the share of taxes paid by powerful foundations and institutions associated with Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is down from 50% to 0.3% of all tax revenues received by the government.Meanwhile, President Eb
As the site of the discovery of crude oil in the Middle East, Iran has had a long track record of petroleum production. It is easy to forget nowadays, but the first oilfield in the region was discovered in 1908 in Masjed Soleyman, located in Iran’s southern province of Khuzestan. Currently, Iran has
In the aftermath of the oil shock of 1973, Iran's oil revenue suddenly quadrupled to nearly $20 billion a year (equivalent to $130 billion in today’s money). Flushed with new petro-dollars, Iran’s then-leader, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, immediately went on a spending spree to build Iran's economic,
The advent of the Internet has been one of the profound communications revolutions in the world: so much so that data has become one’s most important asset, and the world is, at the same time, rapidly moving towards blockchain technology, digital currencies, and telecommuting. These technological ad
For many years in Iran, the arrival of the Persian new year, Nowruz, coincided with an increase in deadly car accidents. According to the Iranian Legal Medicine Organization, 1080 people had traffic-related fatal accidents during the previous Nowruz holiday. In the first week of this year’s Nowruz,
Iranian media occasionally publishes astonishing data about drug use in the country. Quoting government officials, one report claims that Iranians consume more than 2 tons of illegal drugs per day, while another report states that around 5.3% of the Iranian population, roughly 4.5 million people, ca
Despite the sporadic information available about sex workers, commonly known as prostitutes, there is little information about their clients in Iran. In a new survey conducted by Iran Open Data, more than 40% of participants stated that they have used sexual services at least once. Among the respond
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