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Iran

Iran Media Stats

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STAT AMOUNT DATE RANK HISTORY
Broadcast media - 2009
Households with television 76.58% 2002 75th out of 142
Internet > Fixed broadband Internet subscribers per 1000 40.25 2012 101st out of 188
Internet > Internet users > Per 100 people 26 2012 124th out of 201
Internet > Internet users per thousand people 256.77 2013 130th out of 205
Internet > Users per 1000 320.29 2007 56th out of 149
Internet users 8.21 million 2009 35th out of 206
News Agencies > List of news agencies

Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) - state-run

Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) - English-language pages

Fars News Agency - affiliated to Revolutionary Guards, English-language pages


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2013
Personal computers > Per capita 109.14 per 1,000 people 2004 61st out of 155
Radio > List of radio stations

IRIB - state-run, operates eight national networks, provincial services and an external service

2013
Telecoms > Mobile cellular subscriptions > Per 100 people 76.92 2012 140th out of 200
Telephones > Mobile cellular > Per capita 455.22 per 1,000 people 2007 93th out of 162
Television > List of TV stations

IRIB - state-run, operates provincial, national and international services

Press TV - IRIB's English-language satellite channel

Al-Alam - IRIB network in Arabic

2013
Television receivers > Per capita 75.73 per 1,000 people 1997 109th out of 178
Televisions per 1000 67.26 2003 127th out of 191

SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; World Development Indicators database; International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database, and World Bank estimates.; Wikipedia: List of countries by number of Internet users (Calculated using penetration rate and population data from "Countries and Areas Ranked by Population: 2012" , Population data, International Programs, U.S. Census Bureau, retrieved 26 June 2013). Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; Internet World Stats, June 30, 2010; British Broadcasting Corporation 2014; Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics; CIA World Factbook, December 2003. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.

Citation

  • Iran ranked first for telecoms > telephone lines per 1000 amongst Muslim countries in 2012.
  • Iran ranked first for internet > fixed broadband internet subscribers amongst Middle Eastern and North Africa in 2012.

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