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  • Ratio of burn beds to population - 2020

    This data is taken from table number 18-2 from page 308 of the report Ratio of burn beds to population - 2020.

  • Ratio of active beds to population - 2020

    This data is taken from table number 18-1 from page 307 of the report Ratio of active beds to population - 2020.

  • Data Call: Women defying hijab in Iran

    According to a recent Iran Open Data poll, 8 out of every 10 women have been in public without hijab in the last one or two months. But nearly 90% of them state that they sometimes, or always, carry a scarf or a shawl with them. Although 70% of women who defied the hijab stated that they were worrie

  • Data Call: Domestic Violence in Iran

    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

  • Is the Iran-Turkey Gas Deal an Empty Promise?

    Marred by a troubled history of supply disruption, the deal Iran signed last year to export gas to its neighbour Turkey may not be possible to realise.Iranian and Turkish officials announced last July a plan to increase Iran’s gas exports from Iran to Turkey. The announcement was made after the Turk

  • Is the Iran-Russia “$40-Billion Energy Agreement” Realistic?

    The $40-billion agreement last year between the National Iranian Oil Company and Russia’s Gazprom may not be the agreement the Iranian government is hoping for to revamp its investment-needy energy sector.In November 2021, local media quoted Oil Minister Javad Oji as stressing that Iran's oil and ga

  • Kish Island Gasfield: Another Wasted Opportunity

    Ambitiously conceived as Iran’s main tourist and commercial hub, Kish Island had been touted by numerous governments as a free-trade zone and the future recipient of major foreign investment. But, more than a decade since these plans were first announced, the island’s struggle to meet its own infras

  • Level of Participation in the 2022 Protests

    About 60% of respondents to Iran Open Data’s December 2022 survey stated they participated in last year’s nationwide protests, which were sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in Morality Police custody. Men said they participated in the protests more often than women. 41% stated the

  • Inside the structure and budget of Iran’s security apparatus

    Nearly two months have passed since the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, at the hands of Iran's morality police sparked nationwide protests. So far, the Islamic republic's effort to violently suppress the uprising has resulted in countless losses of human life and property. The gov

  • Facing the Morality Police: Two-Thirds of Women Have Experienced Interrogation or Arrest

    About 61 percent of Iranian women say they had at some point been interrogated or detained by the Morality Police, according to a social media survey conducted by Iran Open Data.Another 71 percent of women stated that at least one of their family members had a similar experience. Clothing, make-up,

  • Iran’s Government Spends Billions on its Prisons Each Year

    The tens of thousands of arrests that followed the widespread protests that erupted in Iran last September following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died while in Morality Police custody have brought public attention to the Iranian General Directorate of Prisons, which admi

  • A Look at Iran’s Unaccounted-For LPG Revenues

    In a recent speech at the Iranian Association of Chemical Engineering, Malek Shariati Niasar, an MP and a member of the Iranian Parliament’s Energy Commission, criticised the lack of accountability for the sale of LPG (Liquified Petroleum Gas) in Iran. He complained that the National Iranian Oil Ref