Iran’s once-youthful population is aging fast, fueling economic fears as cash-strapped couples resist a government push for more children. Driven by rising life expectancy and dramatically ...

Iran's once-youthful population is aging fast, fuelling economic fears as cash-strapped couples resist a government push for more children. Driven by rising life expectancy and dramatically declining ...

She is listed by the University of Melbourne as working at its School of Population and Global Health, published widely on Iran’s once-lauded fertility and family-planning policies. On Saturday ...

Turkey Iran Syria KUWAIT Iraq JORDAN BAHRAIN Wahhabism, an ultraconservative doctrine linked to Sunni Islam, is embraced by about a quarter of the Saudi population, according to Michael Izady ...

In four countries – Iran, Azerbaijan, Bahrain and Iraq – Shia Muslims make up a majority of the total population. Map: More Than a Third of the World’s Shia Muslims Live in Iran Roll over a country ...

Iran has limited the provision of family planning services at state-run hospitals as it tries to boost its population size. Vasectomies will no longer be carried out at state-run medical centres ...

Iran’s powerful Council of Guardians, the equivalent of the constitutional court, on 1 November approved a bill called the “Plan for supporting family and rejuvenation of the population” in ...

Acting on Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's calls for Iran to reverse course and boost its population growth, parliament has passed a bill that would make vasectomies, tubectomies ...

Driven by rising life expectancy and dramatically declining birth rates, Iran's demographic makeup has shifted over the years, mirroring trends across much of the world. The National Population ...