Iranian diaspora
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Iranians
Cyrus the Great • Darius the Great • Saadi • Anousheh Ansari
Total population
approx. 75 million
Regions with significant populations
Iran 70,049,262  United States 377,618 [1] to 691,000 [2] to 1,560,000 (in 1996) [3]  United Kingdom 275,000 [4]  UAE 400,000 [5]  Iraq 227,000 [6]  India 155,000+  Canada 121,510 (2006 Census) [7]  Germany 110,000 [8]  Israel 80,000 [9]  Qatar 73,000 [10]  France 62,000 [9]  Kuwait 60,000  Sweden 60,000  Russia 50,000 [9]  Bahrain 48,000 [11]  Tajikistan 31,000 [12]  Netherlands 30,000 [9]  Australia 22,550 [13]  Oman 25,000 [14]  Greece 20,000 [9]  Austria 12,452  Japan 11,988 [9]  Denmark 10,000  Turkey 6,014 [15]  Belgium 6,000 [9]  Norway 6,000 [9]  Italy 5,910 [16]  South Africa 5,000 [9]  Finland 2,000 [9]
Languages
Persian (Western dialect, in addition to regional varieties), Azeri (southern dialect), Kurdish, Gilaki, Mazandarani, Balochi, Arabic, Turkmen, Lori, Bakhtiari, Armenian, Tat, Talysh, Assyrian
Religion
Predominately Shi'a Muslim.[17][18] There are also some adherents of Sunni Islam, Bahá'í Faith, Christianity, Judaism, Zoroastrianism and some Atheists and Agnostics

Iranian Diaspora Population map.
In thousands of people:      1      10      50      150      250 - 300      700      2500      No data availableNote : For India, without the Parsis, the figure would be 10 to 20 thousand people.

The term Iranian citizens abroad or "Iranian/Persian diaspora" refers to the Iranian people born in Iran but living outside of Iran and their children.

Over one million Iranians have emigrated to North America, Europe, Turkey and Australia, mostly after the Islamic revolution in 1979. In particular, the Los Angeles area is estimated to be host to approximately 500,000 Iranians, earning the Westwood area of LA the nickname Tehrangeles, a portmanteau of Tehran and the latter two phonemes of Los Angeles. Other metropolises that have large Iranian populations include Dubai with 300,000 resident Iranians, London with 100,000 Iranians, Toronto, Paris, Washington D.C., Stockholm, and Frankfurt. Their combined net worth is $1.3 trillion (2006 est.)^[19].

Migrant Iranian workers abroad remitted less than two billion dollars home in 2006.^[20]

Note that this differs from the other Iranian peoples living in other areas of Greater Iran, who are of related ethnolinguistical family, speaking languages belonging to the Iranian languages which is a branch of Indo-European languages.

Native speakers of Persian

See also: Persian language

The number of native speakers of Persian in Iran is estimated at around 40 million, or 60% of the total population.^[21] However in the wider context, Iranian languages and their various dialects (totaling an estimated 150-200 million speakers) exceed the Iranian borders and are spoken throughout western China, Central Asia, southern Russia, and eastern Turkey.^[22]

See also

• Privatization in Iran
• Anti-Iranian sentiments
• Demography of Iran
• Iran's Brain Drain problem

References

External links

• Iranian Diaspora in pre-Islamic times
• The Persian Diaspora, Census, 1996
• Iranian Alliances Across Borders (IAAB)