Since January 2020, Iran has been burning unsold fuel oil in power stations, causing severe air pollution, while importing costly low-sulfur fuel oil for international obligations, leading to economic losses.
An organization led by a cleric close to Ali Khamenei receives a budget equivalent to the monthly income of 24,000 minimum-wage workers, Iran Open Data reveals.
The Iranian Bureau of Prisons is building 70 new prisons and penitentiaries across the country, Iran Open Data research shows. The structures should be operational by 2026.
Despite the fact that prisoners are legally obligated to pay for their own ankle monitors, the Consolidation Commission of the Majlis determined that 500 billion Tomans ($8.1 million, at an exchange rate of 61,300 Tomans/$1) of public funds will be allocated to the bureau of prisons for their procur
Officials at Iran’s Ministry of Health say the number of cancer cases in Iran has reached nearly 150,000 cases per year. However, the latest International Agency for Research on Cancer of the World Health Organization data shows that in 2022, Iran had 137,000 cancer cases. The number of cases and de
As the country grapples with water scarcity, the number of legally constructed deep wells has increased by 40%, and semi-deep wells by 1.5 times. However, the wells’ water production has decreased by 15%, Iran Open Data research shows.The Statistical Center of Iran’s yearbook states that the number
Iran's runaway inflation is a rarity in global terms, especially when placed side-by-side with the economies of its regional neighbors. Since 1990, average prices in Saudi Arabia have increased by 55%, in Israel by 56%, in the Republic of Azerbaijan by 312%, and in Egypt by 897%. Meanwhile, the cumu
Iran’s number of “cultural and Quranic institutions” has increased 18-fold in the past 12 years, official statistics show. In total, the country hosts 1,420 such institutions, a marked increase from 80 institutions in 2013. Chart LinkIran Open Data has extracted and processed these numbers from the
The inflation rate in the first 30 months of Ebrahim Raisi’s presidency is almost equal to the total inflation of the last 15 years of Pahlavi rule, data released by the Iranian government suggests. Using Statistical Center of Iran figures, Iran Open Data calculates that from July of 2021 to Decembe
Two institutions controlled by the influential politician Gholam-Ali Haddad Adel, namely the Academy of Persian Language and Literature and the Saadi Foundation, receive more money from the national budget than most universities and research institutes, Iran Open Data research shows.These two instit
Shortly after the Iranian revolution of 1979, clerics led by Ruhollah Khomeini - who said before the revolution that he had “no interest in political power” - seized Iran’s executive. In the following four decades, clerics came to dominate many high-level government positions, in addition to the pos
Half a century ago, Iran's economy was bigger than South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. Recently, Iran has not only fallen behind these old rivals, but also lost its global economic significance.Iran Open Data’s research shows that seven years before the 1979 revolution, Iran’s economy was twice t
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