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Iran hosts one of the largest refugee population in the world, with more than one million refugees, mostly from Afghanistan (80%) and Iraq (10%). Since 2006, Iranian officials have been working with the UNHCR and Afghan officials for their repatriation .
Based on the 2016 census, about 46% were under 20 years old and about 67% were under the 30 years old. Given the 40-year presence history, many of them were born in Iran. The Afghan refugee population were younger than the indigenous population of Iran (31% of Iranians were under the age 20, and 49% of Iranians were under the age of 30).
UNHCR registered refugees by country/territory of asylum between 2022 and 2010 Country/territory of asylum Refugees per 1,000 inhabitants in mid-2015 [1] 2022 [2] 2019 [3] mid-2016 [4]
Iran, which is home to 3 million Afghans, with thousands more arriving daily, is sending more and more refugees back — into the hands of the Taliban. Amid a crackdown, Afghan refugees in Iran ...
The 2012 census put the figure of remaining Jewish community in Iran at about 9,000. [26] The Jewish population of Iran was 8,756 according to 2013 Iranian census. [3] [27] According to Iranian census, the remaining Jewish population of Iran was 9,826 in 2016; [28] while in 2021, the World Population Review website numbered the Jews in Iran at ...
In 2000, the Iran Press Service reported that Iranian expatriates had invested between $200 and $400 billion in the United States, Europe, and China, but almost nothing in Iran. [5] In Dubai, Iranian expatriates have invested an estimated $200 billion (2006). [29] Migrant Iranian workers abroad remitted less than two billion dollars home in ...
The majority of the diaspora has been formed by Afghan refugees since the start of the Soviet–Afghan War in 1979; the largest numbers temporarily reside in Iran. As stateless refugees or asylum seekers , they are protected by the well-established non-refoulement principle and the U.N. Convention Against Torture . [ 43 ]
I was just a 6-year-old girl in Esfahan, Iran, in 1997 when my parents bought me a bike, and I had never loved anything more. After many falls, I taught myself how to ride in our backyard.