Percentages in Iran
What was once written many decades ago (c. 100 years ago), that the Persians in Iran comprise 51% of the population is an outdated data. That estimation was made when the Metropolitan Tehran had 1 million inhabitants. Right now it has 15 million. A great majority of these inhabitants are Persianised Azaris, Kurds, Gilaks etc. during the recent history. The latest official statistical data of Iran based on a population concensus states that 86.4% of the people in the metropolitan Tehran speaks Persian as his/her mother tongue and considers himself/herself of Persian ethnicity. This process is not confined to Tehran and has been in progress in whole of Iran in the last century. Recent university theses which deal with these changes estimate the Persians of Iran to be around 70% of the population now.
- I added the Disputed notice, plus where the numbers came from. Now why exactly do you believe the CIA Factbook's numbers to be wrong? Fishal 06:25, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- I explained above why the CIA numbers are wrong: because they are outdated. And notice that CIA thinks 1% of Iranians speak (Turkey's) Turkish as their mother tongue! Every child in Iran knows that this is absolutely wrong. That "data" was some vague guess made c. 40 years ago. It has no base in reality. Because Americans do not translate and study the latest statistics and data published by I.R. of Iran they have to stick to that outdated obsolete "data".
I will provide some new sources later (some in Persian).
--Mani1 22:12, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- I'll revert the edits until we have some updated sources then. -- Chuq 11:42, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Edit war
- I've reverted these changes [1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Demographics_of_Iran&diff=5712748&oldid=5712175) as they were poorly worded/formatted, from an anon, and they changed figures without specifying a source. Individually these may not be a problem but all at once made me suspicous. Rv back if someone more knowledgeable about this topic can confirm the info. -- Chuq 06:22, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Oh, not to mention the percentages don't add up to 100% -- Chuq 06:25, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I have reverted the vandal again, and added the following to the article text:
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