Iran's National Population Affairs Headquarters reported Sunday that the country's birth rate fell to a 70-year low in 2025, with 892,282 births recorded — an 8.9% decline from the previous year. The trend continued into 2026, with the first four months seeing 277,371 births, a 6.9% drop from the same period last year, according to secretary Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi.
Iran's National Population Affairs Headquarters reported a 70-year low in births, with 892,282 births in 2025, an 8.9% decline year-over-year, and the trend accelerating in early 2026. The demographic decline comes against a backdrop of severe economic crisis that The Zioneer has extensively documented: official data shows annual inflation at 88.6%, with food prices surging 134.6%; the Iranian parliament's research center projects the poverty rate will reach 45.5% by 2028; and the IMF forecasts a 6.1% GDP contraction this year — the worst since the 1980s. While the report does not explicitly attribute the falling birth rate to economic factors, the convergence of collapsing fertility with the deepest economic crisis in decades is stark. The regime's long-standing pronatalist policies appear to be failing against the weight of runaway inflation, chronic water scarcity, and eroding purchasing power.
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