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The latest data from the Statistics Center of Iran shows that about 54% of the country's GDP in 2019 was concentrated in only five provinces. The Tehran province, where the sprawling capital city of Tehran is located, had the highest share of the GDP among the 31 provinces, at 21.7%. The oil-ri

Many news reports have suggested that Iran’s November 2019 protests erupted mainly in disadvantaged and marginal areas of the country. But to what extent does this statement correspond to the official data? Amnesty International announced on December 2, 2019, that at least 208 people had been k

The number of Iranians getting divorced are on the rise, according to the latest data from the country's Statistics Center.While the number of marriages in Iran, too, increased during the period between 2019 and 2020 by 4.4%, reaching 556,731 cases, the divorce rates rose by 3.6%, reaching 183,193 c

Dozens of holdings owned by the wealthy Modallel and Paidar families have received billions of dollars at a government subsidized rate, according to Iranian Central Bank's latest data. Additionally,  in the past two years millions of dollars have been given to thousands of "quasi-government" en

A "prescription drug mafia" in Iran controls the import, distribution, and pricing of all pharmaceutical products, Senior Islamic Republic officials have publicly declared in recent years. The Health Minister, Saeed Namaki, for example in July 2019 plainly said that operatives of the purported netwo

Nowadays liquidity is one of the most widely used terms in the media. The average person may know that it causes inflation and lowers production, but may perhaps not really know what it truly means. Liquidity is a set of monetary assets that are either cash, meaning it is immediately available like

In his first term in office (2013-2017), President Hassan Rouhani had a relatively successful record in the area of macroeconomics. His administration’s highest achievement was controlling the inflation rate, which his team managed for two consecutive years to keep in single digits for the first tim

The Central Bank of Iran’s data shows that the volume of liquidity between 2011 and 2019  increased by about 1.6 trillion tomans. Furthermore, the Statistics Center of Iran’s data on national bank accounts shows that Iran’s GDP between 2018 and 2019 has not changed. Meanwhile, liquidity, during

At Iran Open Data, we have been working to make resources about open data and access to information available to open data advocates in Iran. The following blog post from Open Contracting Partnership (Author: ROMINA COLMAN) is one of the resources we have made available in Persian. This post origina

The southern province of Khuzestan has recently become the center of a new crisis in Iran. Anti-regime protests have erupted in many of its cities, which have been met by deadly response of the security forces. But the protests, sparked by the province’s water shortage, are not the only problem that

The oil-rich but otherwise poor southern province of Khuzestan is an important contributor to Iran's economy. Steel, sugar, agriculture and electricity are some of the important resources produced by this province. But it is Khuzestan’s oil and gas fields as well as its petrochemical industries that

The Qom Monorail project was intended to develop urban transportation and reduce traffic in Qom. The project started in 2009 and was planned to be completed by 2011. The railway was intended to be built in two phases for a total of 18 kilometers (km). The first phase was about 7 km with 5 stations.T